Sylvia

Maithreyi Karnoor is a poet, award-winning translator, and recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow in creative writing and translation at Literature Across Frontiers, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has been shortlisted for The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for A Handful of Sesame, her translation of a Kannada novel. She is a two-time finalist for The Montreal International Poetry Prize. She lives in Bangalore, India.

"Lyrically written and deeply profound, the interlocking tales of *Sylvia *by Maithreyi Karnoor take the reader on a compassionate and magical journey into the heart of both a life and life in general and in doing so reveals the truth and beauty that lives there." —Mark Chadbourne, Sunday Times best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist