Sheena Kalayil

I am the author of novels 'The Wild Wind' (Polygon Birlinn) which was longlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker award, 'The Inheritance' (Polygon Birlinn), and 'The Bureau of Second Chances' (Polygon Birlinn) which won the Writers' Guild Award for Best First Novel. My short stories have appeared on the BBC and in literary magazine, Extra Teeth. My fourth Novel, 'The Others' will be published by Fly on the Wall Press in 2025.

I also teach in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester. I have a PhD in sociolinguistics from Lancaster University, and my monograph 'Second Generation South Asian Britons: Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identities' was published with Lexington Press (2019).

I have a Master's in Education from the Open University, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales.