Anita Gopalan is a translator and artist. She graduated in Computer Science and Mathematics from BITS Pilani, and worked in Banking Technology sector for over fourteen years in India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Middle East. She has translated prose and poetry by contemporary Hindi author Geet Chaturvedi, and is a recipient of a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for her translation from the Hindi of Geet Chaturvedi's novella Simsim. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Poetry International Rotterdam, Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, Mantis, International Poetry Review, 91st Meridian, Acumen, Circumference, and elsewhere. A trader, she now lives in Bangalore, India.