Shivangi Pandey is a literary translator working between English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Odia, and Angika. She is invested in the politics of language, intimacy, and vernacular memory, with a focus on uncovering lost or underrepresented narratives, particularly by women. She is currently between two translation projects: the Sarala Mahabharata and Mallika: A Woman and Her Press, a project to recover and translate the complete works of Mallika, Hindi’s first woman novelist.