Purnima Tammireddy is a fiction writer, translator, and publisher. She co-founded pustakam.net, a website for book reviews in 2009, and “Elami Publications” in 2022. “Manto in Telugu” is a digital project to bring the writer closer to Telugu readers. Her publications include a Telugu translation of Manto’s Siya Hashiye, a thematic collection on communal violence, and Emotional Pregnancy, a short story collection. Her other ongoing translation projects include: Pinjar by Amrita Pritam (Hindi to Telugu), Mallu Swarajyam’s memoir (Telugu to English), KV Tirumalesh’s Poems (Kannada to Telugu), and short stories of Hyderabadi women writers (Urdu to Telugu). She’s a techie by profession.