Deya Bhattacharya is a freelance writer and former business development manager from India who started writing fiction during the Covid-19 lockdown. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in Beloit Fiction Journal, Blackbird, Eclectica, The Write Launch, Prose Online, Button Eye Review and Pendust Radio (as an audio dramatisation). Her work has received support from the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and been nominated for a Best Of The Net award. Deya holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and an MBA in Marketing from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. She lives in Bangalore.