Mridula Koshy is the author of If It Is Sweet(Transurban Press), a collection of short stories. If It Is Sweet won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Prize.

She lives in New Delhi with her poet-schoolteacher partner and three exceptionally wonderful children. She was many other things before she became a writer:

a cashier at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress who set a table cloth on fire, polisher of silverware in the back room for many months afterward, writing adviser,

 a professional advocate of multiculturalism (it was the late 80s), a painter (not of the fine arts variety), receptionist at a law firm (fired for losing phone calls), collator of tax forms, union organizer, community organizer, reading fairy at the library.