Written by
Sheela Jaywant

Sheela Jaywant, a humour-columnist and writer-at-large, lives in Goa, India. Her short stories have been published internationally and have found their way into anthologies such as ‘She Writes’, ‘Vanilla Desires’, ‘City of the Gods’, ‘Carnival’, ‘Indian Voices’, ‘Shell Windows’, ‘Railonama’ and others. Her own collections are ‘Quilted-stories of Middle-Class India’, ‘Liftman and Other Stories’ and ‘Melting Moments’. Her story ‘After Seven Long Years’ was included in the South Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2009. Her short fiction has also won prizes on www.toasted-cheese.com and the Fundacao Oriente Competition. She has written two plays and translated (Marathi-English) several books.