Sridala Swami’s first collection of poems, A Reluctant Survivor, was published by The Sahitya Akademi in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award. She has written four books for children published by Pratham Books in 2009 and 2012. Swami was the 2011 Charles Wallace Writer-in-Residence at The University of Stirling, Scotland and has most recently been a Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (2013).