I am a literary scholar with 5+ years of international teaching and research experience, currently in my final year of doctoral work at Leeds Beckett University, UK. 

I have an MA in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad, India.

I earned a BA in English and Sociology and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. 

My research interests include speculative fiction, blue humanities, and poetry. 

I have presented research papers at academic conferences at the national and international levels held at the University of Warwick, University of Oxford, University of Liverpool, University of Brighton, University of Ferrara (Italy) and South Asian University (Delhi, India).  

My skills include teaching, academic writing, creative writing, and curriculum design.  

My debut poetry collection, "Gaea and Other Poems", was published by Writer's Workshop, India in 2020.

My poems have appeared in Channel magazine, New Note Poetry, Gulmohar Quarterly, Sunflower Collective, Paper Dragon, The Alipore Post, Madras Courier and NAME magazine.

Other writings were published in
Contemporary Women's Writing Association (CWWA) blog,  Voices of Academia, MAP Bangalore (blog) and  University of Glasgow End of Life Studies blog.