Author Pervin Saket is a novelist and poet whose work has been featured in several journals and magazines. She was the 2021 Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive as well as being shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2020. Her novel Urmila has been adapted for the stage, featuring classical Indian dance forms of Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Odissi. Pervin works as an editor for textbooks for primary, middle and senior school. She is also Poetry Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine and co-founder of the annual Dum Pukht Writers’ Workshop.