Dr Shalini Mullick is a storyteller, author, doctor and mentor. She is the inaugural winner of the IGF Archer Amish Award, a 25,000$ prize for fiction writing. Her work has also been longlisted for the AutHer Awards and the Wise Owl Awards. She has been awarded a Jury Appreciation Citation at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Laadli Media & Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity, two Orange Flower (by Women’s Web) Awards and the 8th Sarojini Naidu International Award for Working Women. She has also been awarded the N N jehnagir Fellowship towards creative writing. She is a senior Pathologist in the public sector, and a senior government officer. She is also a mentor to women professionals in the corporate sector She is passionate about the power of stories and storytelling, a keen enthusiast of medical humanities, and is exploring the intersections of medicine, gender, and health