Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer, editor and academic, who is creative director of the Radical Books Collective, founding editor of Warscapes online magazine and is an associate professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her work "engages questions of decolonization, race, gender and violence through a focus on literary and cultural production from the Global South and their circuits of dissemination". She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019), and has been an invited participant and speaker at many educational institutions and literary festivals internationally.