K Pankajam, retired from BHEL as DM/Finance is a bilingual poet and novelist, writing in English and Malayalam with eighteen books to her credit, including ten books of poems and one translated into French. She is one of the editors of the journal ‘Teesta Review’. Her articles, poems, book reviews/papers have been published widely and anthologized. Her poetry has been discussed in detail in the book ‘Femininity-Poetic Endeavours’. She is the recipient of Oriental Poetry Award 2016, one of the recipients of Ravindranath Tagore Award for Poetry International 2017 and 2018, Poiesis award for short stories international 2017, 2018 and 2019, Shree Atal Behari Vajpayee Award 2019 and Rock Pebbles National Literary Award 2019.