Ma is Scared

Bhanot, Kavita: - Kavita Bhanot is ECR Leverhulme Fellow at Leicester University. She is editor of The Book of Birmingham and Too Asian, Not Asian Enough and co-editor of the Bare Lit Anthology. Her fiction, non-fiction and academic work has been published, performed and broadcast widely, including the landmark essay 'Decolonise not Diversify'. She initiated and recently co-organised the Literature Must Fall Festival in Birmingham 2019. She has been a reader and mentor with The Literary Consultancy for ten years. Her first novel won third prize in the 2018 SI Leeds Literary Prize. She was awarded the 2018 Tilted Axis Emerging Translator Mentorship by the National Centre of Writing.