Dr. Chandra Latha broke into the Telugu literary scene with the publication of Regadi Vittulu in 1997, when she won the Telugu Association of North America award in a competition for her novel depicting the lives of farmers during the green revolution. Her other novels include Vardhani (1995), which deals with the psychology of a spoiled child brought up in a joint family; Drushyadrshyam, focusing on environmental issues arising from the displacement of a village due to submersion; and Vallu Veellu Paarijaataalu (2011), which sensitively depicts honor killings and khap panchayats. Her short fiction, compiled in Nenu Nanna Navutha (1996), Idam Sareeram (2003), Vivarnam (2007), and Bottetti (2020), delineates issues ranging from concerns of women and children to the cultural effects of globalization, medical advances, and the software boom on individual lives. Her non-fiction addresses the demands of environmental and socioeconomic issues: Chepa Legara Vaccu! (Fish can fly!), Vacche Daretu (2010), and Itanala Kadavaku Eeboothi Botlu (2010). Her latest novel, Neelumpuraasi (2022), is a thoroughly researched historical novel that deals with indigo farming and trade in 19th century Andhra Pradesh. Dr. C.L.L. Jayaprada retired from Andhra University after teaching English Literature for thirty years. She is a bilingual translator with more than half a dozen published works to her credit: He Conquered the Jungle (Macmillan, 1998); Purusha Ahankaraniki Sawal (Hyderabad Book Trust); Stories of Tenali Raman (CBT); Yagnam and Other Stories (Sahitya Akademi, 2006); Beyond the Backyard: Telugu Women Writers' Contemporary Stories with P. Sathyavathi and V. Pratima (Sahitya Akademi, 2019); and Sri Narayana Guru (TTD). She won the Jyeshta Literary Award for Translation in 2000. She has published more than 80 stories in Telugu and English national journals. Her English translation of Tirumala Ramachandra's