About the author
A Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling in Scotland, in 2010, K. Srilata teaches creative writing and literature at IIT Madras. Table for Four is her debut novel. Srilata is an award-winning poet and has two collections of poems?Seablue Child and Arriving Shortly (forthcoming). She co-edited Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry. Her other books include The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History and Short Fiction from South India. Her reviews appear regularly in The Hindu?s Literary Review.
