Harsita Hiya, currently pursuing her PhD in English Literature, is a writer and translator. She was a contributing translator in British Council-sponsored ‘Write Assamese’ project. Her work has featured in Words Without Borders, Muse India and Little Journal of North East India. Two of her short stories were featured in Riverside Stories. She has two books – a short story collection The Forest That Ate People and Other Not-so-scary Stories and Grandmother’s Tales, translation of Assamese literary stalwart Lakshminath Bezbaruah’s Burhi Aair Xadhu. She is currently translating Kokadeuta aru Natilora, another masterpiece of Bezbaruah.