Shinie Antony is a writer and editor based in Bengaluru. Her novels include Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, Can’t, The Girl Who Couldn’t Love. Her short-story collections include Barefoot and Pregnant and The Orphanage for Words. She has put together the anthologies Boo, Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman. She is the founder of Bangalore Literature Festival and festival director of Bengaluru Poetry Festival. Her story ‘A Dog’s Death’ won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002