cw: rape, sexual violence

Manjula Padmanabhan (she/her), is an author, playwright and cartoonist. Her play HARVEST won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. Her weekly comic strip SUKIYAKI appears in Business Line, in Chennai, India. Her two most recent novels ESCAPE and THE ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS, are set in a brutal future world. She lives in the US, with a home in New Delhi.

Host: Emily Stamets (she/her, @theemilystamets)

original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor

graphics: Tiffany Spence