Nikita Gill: Hekate

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, illustrator and actor who has the attention of 750,000 Instagram followers worldwide for her work. Her work offers a shift of perspective which centres women in both Greek and Hindu myth as well as folklore. She has given a TEDx Talk, spoken at every major literary festival in the UK and been shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in poetry three times, the Children's Poetry Award two times and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Gill has written seven poetry collections and two verse novels.

Jessie Kindig is an editor and writer in New York City. She is senior editor for the humanities at Yale University Press, contributing editor for the feminist magazine Lux, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her writing has appeared in Orion, n+1, The Point, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and elsewhere, and she is the editor of The Verso Book of Feminism (Verso, 2020). Among other projects, she is the dramaturg for performer Sophia Brous’ ongoing work, “Set Pieces.”