Nirmala Putul (also referred to as Nirmala Putul Murmu) is a Santhali and Hindi writer, poet, and activist. She was born in 1972 in Dudhni Kurwa village in the Dumka district of Jharkhand. Her poetic publications include collections such as “Apne Ghar ki Talash Mein” (2004), “Nagade ke Tarah Bajte Shabd” (2005), and “Beghar Sapne” (2014). Her writings have been translated into multiple languages and feature in many school and college textbooks. She has been awarded the “Sahitya Samman” by the Sahitya Akademi and “Rashtriya Yuva Samman” by the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad among many others. Her literary and activist work revolves around the plight of Dalit and Adivasi women, and interrogates the patriarchal and developmental mode of the world from a Adivasi-feminist perspective.

Dr Pooja Sancheti is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune. She teaches courses on English language and literature. Her research is primarily focused on South Asian Anglophone fiction, women’s writing, and postcolonialism. Her research has been published in reputed international journals. She is also a bilingual Hindi-English translator. Her translations have been published in Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Hans Katha Masik, and The Beacon. She won the Rajendra Yadav Translated Story Award (awarded by Hans Katha Masik) in 2023.