Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who lives in Chennai and London. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch, Peacock Books, 2006, and Ms. Militancy, Navayana, 2011, and the critically acclaimed novels The Gypsy Goddess, Fourth Estate, 2014, and When I Hit You: Or, the Portrait of the Writer As a Young Wife, Juggernaut, 2017, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018. Exquisite Cadavers, Context, 2019, is her latest novel.
