Anuradha Vijayakrishnan was born in Cochin, India. A trained singer, she followed up a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from Calicut University with postgraduate studies in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. She lives with her husband and two young children in Dubai and attempts to balance a corporate career with her diverse interests. Her poetry first appeared in print under the editorship of Ms. Kamala Das. Granta and British Council first published her fiction in the select New Writing anthology series. Her work has appeared in Magma, Orbis, Stony Thursday Book, The Pedestal Magazine, Soundings, Aesthetica, Asian Cha, Eclectica, Asia Literary Review, Mascara, Indian Literature and Nth Position among others. Her poetry and prose have won prizes at various literary competitions. Seeing the Girl, her debut novel, was long listed in 2007 while it was still a manuscript for the Man Asian Literary Prize. In 2010 her poetry was nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. She is a 2010 alumna of Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program. Seeing the Girl, was published in Feb 2014 by LiFi Publications, India.