Anil Menon's short fiction can be found in a variety of speculative fiction magazines such as Albedo One, Apex, Chiaroscuro, Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. His novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan, 2009) was short-listed for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword award and the Carl Brandon Society's Parallax Award. Along with Vandana Singh, he edited Breaking the Bow (Zubaan, 2012), an anthology of spec-fic stories inspired by the Ramayana. He can be reached at iam@anilmenon.com.