Gayatri Jayaraman is the author of Sit Your Self Down (Hachette India, August 2020), Who Me, Poor? (Bloomsbury India, 2017), Indigenius (Juggernaut, 2016). She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for poetry in 2021, and long listed for the Commonwealth Short Story prize in 2018. She is a counsellor and founder of Shamah | शम:, a Mind Body Spirit therapeutic practice.