Rekha Valliappan is an award-winning short story writer and poet. Her work has earned nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Among the various literary and genre journals to publish her writing are Queen Mob's Teahouse, Bending Genres, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ann Arbor Review, The London Reader, The Blue Nib, Lackington Magazine, ColdNoon: Travel Poetics, The Saturday Evening Post, and other venues,