Kankana Basu is a Mumbai-based writer and the author of Vinegar Sunday, Cappuccino Dusk, Lamplight: Paranormal Stories from the Hinterlands, The Messiah, Spice Corridors and The Zyphon Sleeps Tonight. Her fiction revolves around ghosts, goofballs, aliens and the fractured nature of lives led in metropolitan cities. Her non-fiction writing includes human interest stories, wellness and women centric issues, and book reviews. Her poetry has featured in The Sunday Hindu, The Tata Lit Live! Magazine, The Bandra Literary Festival Magazine, Femina, Verse Virtual, among other places.