Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing-a New York Times Editor's Choice and finalist for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize-and Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars-a finalist for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Harper's, Granta and The Times Literary Supplement. She lives in London, where she is the founder of South Asia Speaks, a literary mentorship programme for emerging writers.