Abha Iyengar is an award winning, internationally published writer, editor, translator and a British Council certified creative writing mentor. She is the author of the short story collection, ‘The Gourd Seller and Other Stories’ and the flash fiction collections, ‘Flash Bites’ and ‘The Full Platter’. She has co-curated a short story collection, ‘The Other’ and curated and edited two flash fiction collections, ‘Kintsugi’ and ‘Skin’. Her stories have been published in several anthologies and innumerable literary journals. She was Featured Poet at ‘Poetry with Prakriti’. She received the Lavanya Sankaran Writing Fellowship for the Sangam House residency. Her poem-film, ‘Parwaz’ (Flight), won a Special Jury prize in Patras, Greece. She is the founder of Creative Wings Studio and has eight published books to her credit.