Malavika Kannan is a 21-year-old writer inspired by the imagination and resilience of queer girls of color and survivors everywhere. Her YA coming-of-age novel ALL THE YELLOW SUNS will be released in 2023, and her essays about gender, race, and identity appear in Washington Post's The Lily, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She's currently an undergrad at Stanford University.