About Jyothi Vinod
Starting off as an Electronics Engineer in the teaching profession, ,Jyothi Vinod quit teaching in 2013 to take up writing full time. Her short stories have won prizes: Katha Short Fiction Contest (Second 2015, and Third 2016), DNA-Out of Print Short Story Prize (First Runner-up 2017), Arts Illustrated Short Fiction contest (Second place June 2019), Arts Illustrated Poetry Contest (Third Place 2020). Her stories and articles have appeared in The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Out of Print, The Indian Quarterly, Himal Southasian, Juggernaut Writing, Rivanna Review and the Best Asian Short Stories 2017, Kitaab. The Hopper Magazine carried her Nature fiction (Pushcart Prize nominated) in its annual issue 2020.