Ramesh Karthik Nayak is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in Telugu for 2024 for his short story collection, Dhaavlo (2021). He is the first tribal and at 26 the youngest Telugu author to receive this honour. A bilingual poet, short-story writer, editor, and translator from Telangana, he has six books to his credit: five in Telugu and a poetry collection in English. His poems have been published in many journals including Poetry at Sangam, Live Wire, Outlook India, Nether Quarterly, Borderless Journal, The Riveraine, Indian Literature, and Scroll, and have been translated into Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, and Assamese. Speaker @ HLF 2023, 2025