The Girl in the Painting

Renita D’Silva loves stories, both reading and creating them. Her short stories have been published in ‘The View from Here’, ‘Bartleby Snopes’, ‘this zine’, ‘Platinum Page’, ‘Paragraph Planet’ among others and have been nominated for the ‘Pushcart’ prize and the ‘Best of the Net’ anthology. She is the author of ‘Monsoon Memories’, ‘The Forgotten Daughter’, ‘The Stolen Girl’, ‘A Sister’s Promise’, ‘A Mother’s Secret’, ‘A Daughter’s Courage’, ‘Beneath An Indian Sky’.

Aasiya Shah is an actress based in the UK. She plays series regular, Holly, in the Sci-Fi television series Raised by Wolves (2020) for HBO MAX, directed by Ridley Scott, and the recurring role of Kareshma in Bloods (2020). Additionally she stars as a series regular in Riz Ahmed’s upcoming comedy-drama for Amazon. Other screen credits include BBC Comedy We Might Regret This (2023), The Beast Must Die (2021).