Stars From The Borderless Sea

Shalini is a writer with a diverse portfolio spanning fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her flash fictions, drabbles and stories have been featured on many online platforms. She was selected as Juggernaut Selects author for her e-single “Happily Divorced”. She was also one of the winners of the eShe short story contest. She has published 2 short stories each in the anthologies “Sharing Lipstick” and “Women.Mutiny”. One of her short stories was selected for publication in the anthology “Everything Changed After That”, which was unveiled at the Ananke Women in Literature Festival in 2021. Her work on many reputed platforms like eShe Magazine, Women’s Web, Eyra magazine and Incredible Women of India has been well received. She was awarded the Orange Flower Award for Short Fiction in 2022, and for writing on LGBTQ+ issues in 2021. She was also a finalist for the same award for writing on humour in 2021. She was also the winner of the #tellastoryinsixwords Challenge by Crossword bookstores and a judge for myWish4U talent contest organized by Smile Foundation. She has won the ‘Muse of The Month’ contest organized by Women’s Web on multiple occasions. Shalini empathizes with the challenges and unique situations that women are often confronted with and weaves this understanding in her writing. In her other avatar, she is a practicing doctor, specializing in respiratory pathology with many scientific research papers and textbook chapters to her credit. Medical Humanities is an area in which she has a keen interest, and her poetry has been published in reputed journals. She is copyeditor and on the Review board of the journal ‘Research and Humanities in Medical Education’. A late entrant to the world of writing, Shalini finds it takes her away from noise, and towards silence. It is also a good excuse to avoid hitting the gym; and stops her from helicopter parenting her teenage children. She is happiest in the company of books, chocolate and old hindi movie songs. Though she has beautiful memories of her years in Bangalore and has now put down roots in Gurgaon, she remains a Dilliwali at heart. Stars from the Borderless Sea is her first book. You can read more about her at www.shalinimullick.com