Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, fiction-writer and translator. Her fifteen books include the poetry titles Absent Muses (Poetrywala, 2010); The Scorpion (HarperXXI, 2013) and Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien (HarperCollins, 2015); the novels Rupture and Land of the Well (both from HarperCollins); a short-story collection about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love (Penguin, 2013); and a translation of Joy Goswami’s Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2014, 2018). She has co-authored Elsewhere Where Else/ Lle Arall Ble Arall with Eurig Salisbury and is currently Poetry Editor of The Indian Quarterly.