Sheela Jaywant is a Goa-based humour columnist, humour-verse and short-fiction writer whose most recently won prize was the Pallium India Best in Print Media (2019). She has written for the Indian Quarterly, RHiME and other Indian publications. Her favourite Marathi-English translation is Ward No. 5, K.E.M. She works as a school administrator and can be contacted at sheelajaywant@yahoo.co.in.