Madhurika Sankar is a freelance writer/journalist whose work frequently appears in The Hindu, India’s leading national newspaper, in the Op Ed. She’s an engineer and holds a Masters in Biotechnology from Columbia University, New York. She loves to write, but lives for music. She lives in Chennai, India. Madhurika’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and magazines such as The Bangalore Review, The Bombay Review, The Dillydoun Review, Tether's End Magazine and Visible Magazine, with more short works forthcoming in Firewords Magazine, the Tatterhood Review and the Drunk Monkeys Magazine.

J Jayakumar is a professional illustrator in Chennai.