'Shinie Antony' has written the short story collections, 'The Orphanage for Words' and 'Barefoot and Pregnant', and the novels, 'When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied' and 'A Kingdom for His Love'. She has compiled the anthology, 'Why We Don't Talk'. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, she won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003 for her story 'A Dog's Death'.