Saranya Subramanian is a poet, writer, TEDx speaker, and theatre practitioner based in Bombay. An MFA graduate from the University of San Francisco, she has been featured in The New York Times, and her writing has been published in Frontline, Lithub, The Caravan, Madras Courier, Aainanagar, Outlook, Vayavya, Kitaab, the Museum of Art and Photography, Scroll, The Bombay Literary Magazine––to name a  few. Her essay, “The Cockroach and I”, was published as an ebook by Penguin Random House after winning runner up to the Financial Times/Bodley Head Essay Prize, 2020. She runsThe Bombay Poetry Crawl, an archival and research space dedicated to the 20th century Bombay Poets. And she writes because, well, it’s all that she can really do.