E. Vishnupriya works as a lecturer. She has to her credit three published articles in literature and English language teaching in Academic peer-reviewed Journals. Her poems are featured in Muse India, e-journal, Nov-Dec 2012 Issue. She lives in Bangalore.

Elizabeth was born and brought up in Hyderabad, India. She studied in Rosary Convent School and Nizam College.  She worked with the Reserve Bank of India at Hyderabad and Mumbai. She has taken early retirement as Manager from the Bank and now lives in Hyderabad. Apart from English, she writes poetry in Hindi and Urdu. Her 'takhallus' or pen name is “Mona” for the 'ghazal' genre. She also translates poetry from Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Marathi and Telugu into English. Her poems / translations have been published in many magazines and anthologies and also appear on the internet. The poems in this collection span more than three decades.

I received my Master at Towson University in Maryland, where I majored in film. I have written three scripts, and I am now writing my first novel. Although I love movies, I am also fond of poetry. My poems have appeared in various journals, and it is one of my goals as a writer to have them published as books.