Bhavika Govil is a writer from New Delhi, India with a master’s in creative writing from The University of Edinburgh. Her stories have been published in Extra Teeth, Gutter Magazine, Vogue India, among others. Her short fiction has won the Bound Short Story Prize 2019, been mentioned as a notable contender for the 2020 Bristol Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Toto Awards for Creative Writing 2021. She was the joint winner of the 2021 Pontas & JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize for her debut novel-in-progress, and right now, she swears she’s actually writing it.