Sonakshi Srivastava (she/her) is a writing tutor at Ashoka University, Sonepat, India. She previously graduated from the University of Delhi where she read English Literature. Her MPhil dissertation was on biopolitics of ability and debility in contemporary fiction. Currently a resident researcher for ForeignObjekt, she is translating the Hindi novel “Titli” into English under the mentorship of Arunava Sinha through the South Asia Speaks mentorship programme. A contributing translator columnist at “The Bilingual Window,” she was shortlisted for the 2020 Serendipity FoodLab Residency and was a Tempus Public Foundation Fellow in 2021. Her works have appeared in or are appearing in Hakara, potluck zine, orangepeel mag, and Rhodora among others. She is also an active “zinester” and is passionate about food literatures, posthumanism, and discard studies.