Anahita Karthik (she/her) is the Indian, queer, and trilingual author of Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar, her debut YA road-trip rom-com slated to release in 2025 with HarperTeen. She is a postgraduate creative writing student at the University of Cambridge, a contributor for My Big, Fat, Desi Wedding anthology, and author of the Amazon bestselling short story All I Have Left. When she's not reading or writing, she takes commissions for social media graphics and mentors querying authors. You can find her @ana_scribe everywhere.