Shreejana Bhandari, an emerging Nepali voice, who was born and raised in Kathmandu. She is particularly interested in Nepalese folk lore and legends. Widely travelled, she has conducted Nepali poetry translation workshops at Heidelberg University and has been instrumental in preserving the treasure of Nepali poetry in Nepalese circles.  Currently, she lives in Kathmandu, heads the White Lotus Book Shop, and is working on a manuscript of poems, entitled Papaji & Other Poems soon to be published.