Sreemoyee Piu Kundu is an acclaimed journalist and columnist
on gender and sexuality and now full-time author and motivational speaker and
coach.
Sreemoyee debuted with Faraway Music, her critically lauded,
first novel, in 2013, followed by her bestselling feminist erotica, Sita’s
Curse, which explored female desire through the eyes of a Gujarati housewife.
You’ve Got the Wrong Girl, her third work of fiction, a
light-hearted rom-com, broke new ground in Indian ‘lad-lit’. In 2017, she wrote
her first non-fiction work, the widely-appreciated and critically acclaimed,
Status Single, a narrative drawing from the lives of 3000 urban Indian single
women, about the daily struggle of being single in a country where the highest
validation for women remains marriage and motherhood that was featured on Los
Angeles Times and the Guardian London as a seminal work of female identity.
Sreemoyee's latest work of fiction, Cut takes a look at the
stifling environment of government censorship and the struggle of a theatre
activist to retain his artistic freedom. Cut was performed as a play at Delhi's
prestigious National School of Drama, and was directed by legendary theatre
director, Abhilash Pillai.
Sreemoyee is the
recipient of the NDTV L'Oréal Women of Worth award for Excellence in Literature
and the United Nations Woman, Young Achiever for Literature.
She has been signed up for her memoirs, Unhealed, by
Bloomsbury and has just completed an inter-generational family saga set in
Kolkata, All Our Other Lies.
Sreemoyee is single and lives between New Delhi and Kolkata.
Sreemoyee is the founder of the community, Status Single that aims to address
74.8 million single Indian women in this country and is all set to curate and
host India's first ever summit in Bangalore, this year, the SWIFT Summit -
Single Women of India Forward Together.
Sreemoyee is a Ted sand Josh Talk speaker and is the face of
many primetime debates on women and gender and is also the creator, curator and the host of Salon With Shree - a live chat show that she hosts on a monthly basis
in association with VR Mall, Bengaluru that addresses aims to create
communities stemming from conversations that are unhindered and explore taboo
social topics. She is also curating Wempower - the first ever Women's day
festival at the Orion Mall, Bengaluru, on March 8, 2020.