Karthika Gopalakrishnan is the Head of Reading at Neev Academy, Bangalore, and the Director of the Neev Literature Festival, one of India's biggest children's literature festivals. In the past, she has worked as a children’s book writer, editor, and content curator at Multistory Learning which ran a reading programme for schools across south India. Prior to this, Karthika was a full-time print journalist with two national dailies. Her Twitter handle is g_karthika.