A writer in residence at Sangam house, India, Yeonhui Art space, Seoul and the University of Stirling, Scotland, K. Srilata has taught Literature and Creative Writing at IIT Madras. She co-curates the CMI Arts Initiative and writing residency where she is adjunct faculty. Her novel Table for Four (Penguin, India) was longlisted in 2009 for the

Man Asian literary prize. Srilata is the editor of the anthologies The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil

Poetry, Short Fiction from South India (OUP), All the Worlds Between: A Collaborative Poetry Project Between India and Ireland (Yoda), Lifescapes: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamil Nadu (Women Unlimited) and The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (Zubaan). Her poetry collections include The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans, Bookmarking the Oasis, Writing Octopus, Arriving Shortly and Seablue Child. Her multi-genre anthology on the disability experience titled is forthcoming from Amazon/Westland later this year. She is currently working on a series of poems based on the Mahabharata.