Purnima Tammireddy

Purnima Tammireddy is a writer, translator and publisher, working in both Telugu and English. She was a writer-in-residence at the 2022 Sangam House International Writer Residency. She has translated into Telugu Manto’s Siya Hashiye and Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar. Her English translation of the memoir of Mallu Swarajyam, the leader of the Telangana Peasants’ Armed Struggle, is forthcoming. She is also the author of the short-story collection, Emotional Pregnancy.

In 2022, Purnima founded Elami Publications, an independent Telugu publishing house, and co-founded pustakam.net, a website for book reviews, in 2009. A techie by profession, she currently lives in Bengaluru.