Mandakini Bhattacherya, from Kolkata, is Associate Professor of English, multi-lingual poet, literary critic, translator, with her own Poetry Page on the Dallas-based Mad Swirl Magazine. She participated in the All India Young Writers’ Meet of Sahitya Akademi in 2020, and delivered a talk there on Short Fiction in 2021. She edited the international short story anthology The Mixed Fare in 2021, and is Associate Editor of the Muse of Now Paradigm anthology (Authors Press, 2020). She is co-translator of A Life Uprooted: A Bengali Dalit Refugee Remembers, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2022). She is ex-Joint Secretary and member of Proyas, a women’s NGO.