Karthika VK is Publisher, Westland Books. She has spent over twenty-five years editing and publishing fiction, non-fiction, translations, poetry and graphic novels. She started her career at Penguin Books India and spent a decade as Publisher, HarperCollins Publishers India before moving to Westland, where she set up Context, an imprint that focuses on literature and politics. She has published several award-winning and commercially successful writers including Anita Nair, Aravind Adiga, Manu Joseph, Manu S Pillai, Mirza Waheed, Perumal Murugan, M Mukundan, Rahul Bhatia, Rukmini S., Sarnath Banerjee and Shashi Deshpande. Karthika was shortlisted for the 2022 IPA Prix Voltaire Prize by the International Publishers Association.