Writing in Malayalam under the pseudonym of Chandramati, Chandrika B has a PhD in English and has been a teacher for 19 years. She has also served as the Executive Director in the Medieval Indian Literature Project of the Sahitya Akademi. She has won several awards and fellowships including the FIP Research Scholarship from the UGC (1983-1986), a British Council Visitorship to UK (1993) and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Fellowship (1997-98).