Akoijam Malemnganbi is from Imphal, Manipur and is currently a research scholar at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad. Her research interests include cultural translation, modernity, intersectional feminism and indigeneity. She also works as a freelance translator (Meeteilon/English) and has published a few poems in The Bangalore Review and Our Private Literature Issue 1 and 2.