Michelle D’costa is the author of the poetry chapbook Gulf (Yavanika Press, 2021). She was born and raised in Bahrain, and currently writes and edits out of Mumbai. She co-hosts the podcast Books and Beyond with Bound which has over 2.5 million listens in over 140 countries. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Litro, Berfrois, Economic & Political Weekly, Out Of Print, and many other journals. Her work has been longlisted for prizes like the TOTO Award for Creative Writing & the DNA-Out of Print Short Fiction Contest. She is an alumna of the Seagull School of Publishing, & the Kolam Writers’ Workshop. She loves to mentor writers.