Jissa Jose‘s debut novel, Mudritha (2021), was twice shortlisted for the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (in 2022 and 2024) and honoured with the Samadarshana Puraskaram in 2024. The book is in its sixth edition. She is the author of four other novels, Dark Fantasy (2021), Anandabharam (The Weight of Happiness, 2022), Mukthibahini (2023) and Blueberries (2024), and three short-story collections, Sarvamanushyarudeyum Rakshakku Vendiyulla Kripa (Grace for the Protection of All People, 2020), Irupathaam Nilayil Oru Puzha (On the Twentieth Floor, A River, 2020) and Pushpaka Vimanam (2022). Anandabharam was awarded the 2024 Ankanam Shamsuddin Smrithi Puraskaram. She has also authored Sthreevada Saundarya Shasthram (2020), a book on feminist aesthetics, its praxis and representation.
Jissa is the principal of Government Arts and Science College, Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode. She has a PhD from the University of Calicut and received a post-doctoral award from the UGC.

Originally from Kottayam, she currently lives in Kozhikode district, Kerala.

Jayasree Kalathil is the author of The Sackclothman, a children’s book that has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. Her translations from Malayalam have won the JCB Prize for Literature, the Crossword Book Award for Translation, the V. Abdulla Memorial Translation Award, Jury Commendation from Muse India-GSP Rao Translation Award, and been shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award. In 2024, her translation of Sandhya Mary’s Maria, Just Maria brought her the Crossword Book Award for the second time and a third appearance in the shortlist for the JCB Prize for Literature. As part of the global effort #readpalestine, she has translated Palestinian poetry into Malayalam, including works by Mosab Abu Toha, Mahmoud Darwish, Refaat Alareer, Hiba Abu Nada and Samih al-Qasim.

Originally from Kottakkal in Malappuram district, Kerala, Jayasree currently lives in the New Forest in Hampshire, UK.