Bio:
Snigdha Poonam is a national affairs writer with The Hindustan Times in Delhi. Her journalism has appeared in Scroll, The Caravan, The Times of India, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Granta, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times. Her article 'Lady Singham’s Mission Against Love' was runner-up in the Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize, 2015. She won the 2017 Journalist of Change award of Bournemouth University for an investigation of student suicides that appeared on Huffington Post. Dreamers is her first book. It won 2018’s Crossword Book Award for nonfiction and was longlisted for PEN America Literary Awards.