Kalyani Bindu is an aspiring biologist working as a project assistant in the Indian Institute of Science. She forays into poetry, when at a loss of words. She has published a poetry collection, Two Moviegoers and 32 Others, and has written socio-cultural essays in White Crow Art Daily. Her poems have appeared in the Madras Courier, Indian Review, Navalokam and Bhashaposhini.