Sruthi Amalan is a 23-year-old Tamil diaspora author living in Canada who uses her writing to explore her various intersecting identities and to make sense of the world around her. Sruthi's perspective on the world is deeply informed by her being a brown, queer woman who is a survivor of trauma and abuse. Sruthi released her first poetry collection, ‘Where the Clay Meets the Flame,’ in February 2024.