Shikha Malaviya considers herself a morpher, having been born in the U.K. and raised in the U.S. and India. She is founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Project, an initiative to document, preserve and promote the legacy of modern Indian poetry, and a co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective press. She organized ‘100 Thousand Poets for Change—Bangalore’ in 2012 and 2013; co-founded ‘Poetry in Public India,’ a movement to bring powerful verse by Indian women to public places across India; and gave a TEDx talk on ‘Poetry in Daily Life’ in Bangalore in 2013. Shikha’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She also founded Monsoon Magazine, the first South Asian literary magazine on the web. Shikha graduated from the University of Minnesota with degrees in creative writing and mass communications.