Shobhana Kumar has two collections of poetry, The Voices Never Stop and Conditions Apply, published by Writers Workshop Kolkata. She has also authored six works including biographies and industrial histories in South India. Her work has appeared in several journals and magazines and anthologies, the most recent being All the Worlds Between (ed. K. Srilata and Fiona Bolger, Yoda Press, 2017), a collaborative project between Indian and Irish poets. In her everyday life, she hopes to build a better world for the elderly, abandoned and works with the transgender community. [Auditory Cortex]