Radha Chakravarty teaches English at Gergi College, University of New Delhi, India. Her books include translations of major Bengali writers such as Tagore, Bankimchandra, Mahasweta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Selina Hossain and Hasan Azizul Haq. She has edited Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India and Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women. She received the Radhakrishnan Memorial Award (2006).