K Vaishali is an author based in Hyderabad, India. Her critically acclaimed memoir, Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India (Yoda Press & Simon & Schuster, 2023), won the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for English and made the 2023 Rainbow Awards shortlist. She’s been recognized as a queer role model by egomonk and selected as the Specific Learning Disabilities delegate at the 2024 International Purple Fest organized by the Government of India.
She works as a documentation writer at a tech company and holds a Master’s in Communication from the University of Hyderabad. She was recently featured as a speaker at the Hyderabad Literary Festival, Dehradun Literature Festival, Dibrugarh Literature Festival, Rainbow Literary Festival, and Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.