Speakers

Mani Rao is the author of thirteen poetry books including So That You Know (HarperCollins 2025), and four books in translation including Bhagavad Gita and Saundarya Lahari. Researching mantra experience in tantric communities, she discovered continuing revelations and new mantras in circulation on-ground for Living Mantra: Mantra, Deities and Visionary…

Shinie Antony has written the novellas The Girl Who Couldn’t Love, Can’t, and Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, which won the Wise Owl Prize for fiction 2025. She has compiled the anthologies Hell Hath No Fury, Boo, Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman, and co-edited The Art of…