Ramesh Karthik Nayak is an award-winning bilingual poet and short-story writer. He has published four books, three in Telugu (Balder Bandi, Dhaavlo, and Kesula) and one in English (Chakmak, 2023). He is one of the few writers in Telugu to depict the lifestyle of the Banjaras. His poems have appeared in Poetry at Sangam, Indian Periodical, Live Wire, Outlook India, Nether Quarterly, and Borderless Journal , and have been translated into Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bangla. His short story "The Story of Birth" was published in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, University of IOWA. He was thrice shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in Telugu.

Speaker @ HLF 2023