Lakshmi Kannan writes in both English and Tamil. Her publications include fiction in Tamil under the pen-name Kaaveri, and collections of poems in English. She studied American and English literatures at the Universities of Delhi, Jadhavpur and California, and wrote her PhD dissertation on the Nobel laureate Saul Bellow. She was Writer-in-Residence with the Department of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and participated in the International Writing Program in Iowa, USA.