ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mallika is the author of the critically acclaimed thriller IN THE DARK I SEE YOU. Her short stories and flash fiction have appeared in various literary magazines & print anthologies, and have been longlisted and shortlisted for several awards including the Retreat West Quarterly Flash fiction, Best Flash Fiction Prize, the Fractured Lit Best Micro-Fiction Prize, The Strands International Prize, and the Bath Flash Fiction Award.
Reading and writing have always been Mallika’s great passions. After years in web design and managing content, she turned her hand to long fiction. In a way, she says, she has always been telling stories, or at least, that’s how she’s looked at her job, as creating stories. Through her writing, Mallika explores her fascination with what drives us, what makes us tick, and other facets of our psyche. When she’s not plotting her next dark thriller or killer reveal you can find her perusing bookstores or reading. In her down time she loves to cook and bake, and watch alpaca videos.
ON WRITING SUSPENSE THRILLERS
“I realized early on that my fascination with the human psyche rests, in particular, with the dark side of the human mind. I suppose it takes one to know one but I try not to dwell on that. Where one might see a happy connection to a man innocently tucking a stray strand of hair behind a woman’s ear, I imagine something sinister-he’s trying to see if his fingers will fit around her neck when he strangles her later. Something as unassuming as a woman staring off from a café window, to me, can be a dark tale with a frightening end.” ~
