Anil Menon's short fiction can be found in a variety of anthologies and spec-fic magazines such as Albedo One, Apex's Digest, Chiaroscuro, Interzone, LCRW and Strange Horizons. His novel, The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan, 2009), was short-listed for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword award and Carl Baxter Society's Parallax Prize. 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.