J Devika is a bilingual writer, translator, academic, and feminist historian. Her translations from Malayalam into English include the fiction of KR Meera, Unni R, and Sara Joseph, and the autobiography of Nalini Jameela. She has also translated Satish Deshpande and Nivedita Menon’s critical studies from English into Malayalam. Her own publications in both English and Malayalam focus on gender relations, politics, social reforms, and development in Kerala society. She started a pioneering website swatantryavaadini.in about first-generation Malayalee feminists. Recipient of many awards, she is currently a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.