About Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Swarnalatha Rangarajan is Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Her interest in fiction was kindled by a course in advanced fiction writing that she took at Harvard University as a Fulbright scholar. Her short fiction has been featured in Zubaan’s 21 under 40, Penguin’s First Proof, South Asian Review, India Currents, New Asian Writing and Asia Writes. Her poetry has appeared in the collection All the Worlds Between, Yoda Press, 2017, and in Muse India. Her debut novel, Final Instructions was published by Authorspress in 2015. She is the co-translator of Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior, Orient Blackswan, 2018. She has co-edited a collection of interviews with contemporary women writers from Tamil Nadu titled Lifescapes, Women Unlimited, 2019. She is passionate about environmental humanities and has published books and articles relating to ecocriticism.
