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Camellia Paul is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her MA degree in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, India. She has presented and published award-winning research on “Bengal owlscapes” at an interdisciplinary conference in South Korea. Her areas of research and publication include environmental humanities, ecocriticism, animal studies, myth and folklore, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies. Camellia is also an award-winning visual artist with her poetry and art regularly appearing in magazines, anthologies, and online journals such as The Fabulist, Chestnut Review, Livewire, The Passionfruit Review, among others. Her works of translation, fiction, and nonfiction have been published by The Antonym, The Brussels Review, Inky Bones Press, and more. As an independent practitioner of the visual arts and photography, she extensively works on the interface of narratives from the everyday in a pre- and post-pandemic world across rural and urban spaces. Apart from being passionate about Nature, art, and owls, Camellia loves reading, listening to music, and exploring cultures. Instagram: @cammeowl http://amazon.com/author/camelliapaul