Srilata K is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and academic. Her latest collection of poems is Three Women in a Single-Room House (2023). Her other publications include five collections of poetry, a book about the disability experience This Kind of Child: The `Disability’ Story (2022), a novel Table for Four (2011, and edited anthologies The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (2009), Short Fiction from South India (2008). Her poems feature in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Formerly a Professor of Literature at IIT Madras, she is currently Adjunct Professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute.