K. Srilata is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. Srilata has authored seven volumes of poetry, five books of translation from Tamil to English, a novel and a non-fiction book. Her works include the poetry collections Footnotes to the Mahabharata (Westland/Context), Three Women in a Single-Room House and The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans (2019) (Poetrywala), the non-fiction book This Kind of Child: The ‘Disability’ Story (Westland), as well as the novel Table for Four (Penguin).