Shomona Khanna is an advocate working on rights of adivasis and forest dwellers, who has also published several books and articles on the subject. She has set up the Legal Resource Centre which is a collective of lawyers and experts working on the issue of adivasi rights in india. She has also worked closely on the issue of sexual harassment at the workplace, and edited a book written by Indira Jaising on the subject.
Vandana Singh was born and raised in New Delhi, and currently lives in the United States near Boston, where she professes physics and writes. Her short stories have appeared in numerous venues and several Best of Year anthologies, including the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. She is the author of the ALA Notable book Younguncle Comes to Town (Young Zubaan/Puffin India, 2004) and a previous short story collection, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories (Zubaan/Penguin India, 2009).
