Suma Nagaraj is a writer and editor based in Bangalore, India. She has worked as a multimedia journalist and columnist in both digital and print newsrooms, and has diverse experience in various media, including music, movies, book publishing, and theater. She assisted theater director Christine Young on her gender parity movement initiative, Works by Women in San Francisco, while earning her MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco (2014). She was a writer-in-residence at Craigardan (Sep 2024) and has been a National Geographic fellow in slow journalism (2018), attending a workshop with esteemed journalists Paul Salopek, Don Belt, and Prem Panicker on narrative journalism and immersive storytelling. Her writing has appeared online. She is currently working on a book of short stories and a narrative poem.