Keerti Ramachandra has an MA in English Literature from Karnataka University and an M.Phil in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has varied teaching experience from remedial English to spoken/conversational English, English as foreign language for non-Indians, graduate classes in Literature and Communication skills, and high school courses. Fluent in Marathi, Kannada and Hindi, she frequently translates from all three into English and has received the A K Ramanujan Award for Translation in 1995.