In this episode, writer and artist Kuzhali Manickavel talks to Vinayak Varma about her journey from Canada to Bengaluru via Chidambaram, how her writing has been darkly absurd since her early childhood, why process continues to trump convenience, and what goes into her burgeoning visual arts practice.

Kuzhali Manickavel's collections, chapbooks and zines are all available from Blaft Publications. Her first novel is A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School available from Angry Robot. Her work has also appeared in Granta, Strange Horizons, Rolling Stone, Agni, Subtropics, Michigan Quarterly Review and DIAGRAM.

Find Kuzhali at www.kuz ...