Shinie Antony has written the short story collections The Orphanage for Words and Barefoot and Pregnant, and the novels When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied and A Kingdom for His Love. She has compiled the anthology Why We Don’t Talk. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, she won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003 for her story ‘A Dog’s Death’.