Renee Sarojini Saklikar is the author of five books, including the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including Exile Editions, Chatelaine, The Capilano Review, and Pulp Literature. She was Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey (2015-2018), co-founded Lunch Poems at SFU, and teaches creative writing at Douglas College. Bramah's Discovery, the third volume of her epic fantasy in verse series, THOTJBAP, is forthcoming in 2026 with Nightwood Editions. She lives in East Vancouver. 'The Tales of Fanon and Gavroche' is a work in progress, excerpted from Bramah's Discovery.