Srilata Krishnan

About: K Srilata is an academic, poet, novelist, translator, and disability rights activist. She is also a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where she teaches Creative Writing, Fiction, Advanced English, and Translation Studies.[12] She is adjunct professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. At heart a poet, she now writes with heartwrenching empathy about the lives of our able disabled brethren. Srilata's novel Table for Four,(Penguin, India) was longlisted in 2009 for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her books include five collections of poetry, the latest of which The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans was published by Poetrywala, Mumbai. Srilata has also edited the anthologies The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry, Short Fiction from South India (OUP), All the Worlds Between: All the Worlds Between: A Collaborative Poetry Project Between India and Ireland (Yoda) and Lifescapes: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamilnadu (Women Unlimited). Formerly a professor of literature at IIT Madras, Srilata is now Director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Translation at Sai University, Chennai. Srilata was recently awarded an IFA Arts Practice grant to work on a manuscript of poems based on the Mahabharata canon.