About the author

Shruti Mishra

Shruti Mishra writes about folklore, travel, memory, and the stories people carry across places.

Her writing moves between inner landscapes and old roads: prose-poetry, folk tales, remembered places, women in old stories, and the small details that often stay with us after a journey ends. She is interested in stories that survive outside official versions: in myth, silence, family memory, mistranslation, public transport, old towns, and conversations with strangers.

Her books include Three Names for Longing, Strangers Tell the Oldest Stories, and The Women Who Were Remembered Wrong.

Her professional background is in strategic HR and talent leadership, work that has kept her close to the vulnerable conversations behind arrival, growth, uncertainty, loss, and departure.

Across prose-poetry and literary retelling, she is drawn to the moment an ordinary encounter opens into something older: a story carried through a bus ride, a market, a border crossing, or a remembered place. Her work explores how memory, cultural inheritance, and the stories we repeat shape love, grief, power, belonging, and survival.