Geralyn Pinto is a rising talent in English letters. She won the Third Prize in the 2013 International Shakespearean Creative Writing Contest organized by the Save as Writers group, Canterbury, UK. She also won the Runners-up Prize in the 2005 Outlook Magazine – Picador (India) Non-Fiction Writing Contest Prize and First Prize for her short story Two is Company in the 2010 Unisun-Reliance Timeout Creative Writing Contest. Her story Two Flew Over on the theme of child labour was one of the three winners of the 2013 International Desi Writers Lounge Contest. More recently she was declared one of the three winners in the 2014 International Desi Writers Lounge Contest for her short story Shanthi Smells of Smoke. Geralyn Pinto is currently the Head of the English Department at St. Agnes College (Autonomous), Mangalore. Twist & Twain catches up with her to know more. T & T: Namaste, Geralyn. We…
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