Architha Narayanan is a teacher with a bachelor’s in law and a master’s in public policy. She has previously been involved in environmental policy research for organizations such as the UNDP and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India. She has also coauthored a National Governance Report called the Public Affairs Index, 2017. Her short fiction has appeared in The Bangalore Review and has also been shortlisted for The Bombay Review’s annual creative writing awards.