Padma Viswanathan is a writer, playwright, translator, and journalist. Her most recent book is Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime. She is the author of two previous novels: The Toss of a Lemon, shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, a finalist for Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her translation of the novel São Bernardo (2020), by the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and runner-up for the UK Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize.