A poet, fiction writer and translator, Srilata teache s Creative writing and Literature at IIT Madras. H er book The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History was published by Zubaan/Kali for Women , and she co-edited Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry published in 2009 by Penguin/Viking India. Srilata won first prize in the All India Poetry competition 1998 , the Gouri Majumdar poetry prize in 2000 and the Unisun British Council poetry award 2007. Her work has been featured in The BloodAxe Anthology of Indian Poets, Penguin India's First Proofs, Fulcrum , The Little Magazine , Kavya Bharati and The Hindu. Her poetry anthology Seablue Child was published by the Brown Critique, Kolkata in 2000. Table for Four is her debut novel. She has just started to blog and can be accessed at: http://srilatawriting.blogspot.com