Sharmistha Mohanty’s two books of fiction, Book One and New Life, situated her as one of the most exciting innovative writers of her generation. Five Movements in Praise, a new book, will be out later this year. Mohanty has also translated a selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s prose works, Broken Nest and Other Stories. She is the founding editor of the publishing house and literary journal Almost Island and the initiator of the Almost Island Dialogues, an annual international writers festival held in New Delhi. Mohanty is currently on the International Faculty for the Creative Writing MFA at the City University of Hong Kong. She has received a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture in India, as well as from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.