Ajanta Paul is a literary critic, poet and short story writer, currently Principal & Professor of English at Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, India. A Pushcart nominee, Ajanta has published her poetry in Spadina Literary Review, The Pangolin Review (forthcoming), Harbinger Asylum, Written Tales Magazine, Borderless Journal, Setu Bilingual Journal and Café Dissensus Everyday in addition to several international anthologies. Her short stories have been featured in The Bombay Review, The Piker Press and The Statesman, Kolkata. She has published several books of criticism and fiction, the latest being The Elixir Maker and Other Stories (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2019).