Kavita Bhanot is ECR Leverhulme Fellow at Leicester University. She wrote the landmark essay ?Decolonise not Diversify? in 2015. She has edited three short-story collections, including Too Asian, not Asian Enough and Book of Birmingham, and co-founded the Literature Must Fall collective and festival. Her translation of short stories by Anjali Kajal won a 2021 Pen Translates. She won third prize in the 2018 SI Leeds Literary Prize. For the last ten years, she has been a reader and mentor with The Literary Consultancy, with whom she runs workshops with publishers on political/ethical editing.