Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of the English novel Sylvia, the Kannada novel Hettavara Neralu and the poetry collection Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country. Her English translations of Kannada novels A Handful of Sesame and Tejo Tungabhadra have won the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Prize for translation. She is a two-time finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Prize. 

Karnoor is a former Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow in writing and translation at LAF and UWTSD. She was born in Hubli and is currently based in Wales, where she is writing her third novel. There will be elephants in it.