Dr Arya Gopi is a bilingual poet and translator working in English and Malayalam, with more than half a dozen published books, including six Malayalam poetry collections. Her English collections include Sob of Strings (2011) and One Hundred Lines of Discords (2023). She has received over fifty national and international literary awards, including the Kerala State Sahitya Akademi Kanakasree Award. Her work has appeared in journals such as Guftugu Magazine, Muse India, Teesta Review, Modern Literature International Journal, and The Usawa Literary Review, and has been translated into Hindi, English, Kannada, and Bengali. You can find her on Instagram: @draryagopi.