Vrinda Baliga is an engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani. When she's not inhabiting the imaginary worlds of the books she's reading or writing, she lives in Hyderabad, India. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and literary magazines such as A Case of Indian Marvels (Aleph Book Company, 2022), The Best Asian Short Stories 2019 (Kitaab International, Singapore), The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018 (Kitaab International, Singapore), Asia Literary Review, The Big Issue, Himal Southasian, The Indian Quarterly, The Bombay Review, and Commonwealth Writers adda, among others. Her short stories have won prizes in the Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest 2023, The Written Circle Short Story Competition 2021, the Katha Fiction Contest 2017, and the FON South Asia Short Story Competition 2016, and she is the recipient of residency fellowships from Sangam House, India, and The Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, California.