K.R. Meera is a renowned author who has published four novels, seven novellas, six collections of short fiction, two children’s novels and two collections of essays. She has won all the major literary awards, including the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards (for best novel and for best short fiction), the Vayalar Award and the Odakuzhal Award. Her works in translation include Hangwoman, The Poison of Love, The Unseeing Idol of Light, Yellow is the Colour of Longing, The Gospel of Yudas and The Angel’s Beauty Spots.
Nisha Susan is the author of The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories (Context, 2020). Her fiction often explores the intimacy and strangeness that the internet brought to India. Her non-fiction is focused on culture, gender, digital media and politics. She is also the co-founder of two award-winning media companies, The Ladies Finger and Grist Media.