Dia Bhojwani is a 15-year-old student, writer and self-professed nerd living in Mumbai, India. The chief editor of her school magazine, she’s passionate about civil rights, magical realism and confessional poetry. She’s previously been published by Beetle Literary Magazine and The Chrysalis, and has won awards from Lune Spark and the WingWord Poetry Prize. Her first book, The Pandemic Diaries, was published in January 2021. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, sketching, or watching cartoons — a guilty pleasure.