Rahul Soni is a writer, editor and translator. As Associate Publisher – Literary at HarperCollins India, he published several award-winning books by authors both established and new. He was previously associated with the literary agency Writer’s Side, the writer’s residency Sangam House, the journal of translation Asymptote, and Almost Island, a space for avant-garde writing. He was also co-founder of the pioneering multilingual literary journal Pratilipi and the imprint Pratilipi Books. As a translator, his publications include a selection of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poetry A Name for Every Leaf, Pankaj Kapur’s novella Dopehri, Shrikant Verma’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning poetry collection Magadh, and International Booker Prize-winner Geetanjali Shree’s novel The Roof Beneath Their Feet.