The Girl in the Painting

Renita D’Silva loves stories, both reading and creating them. Her short stories have been published in ‘The View from Here’, ‘Bartleby Snopes’, ‘this zine’, ‘Platinum Page’, ‘Paragraph Planet’ among others and have been nominated for the ‘Pushcart’ prize and the ‘Best of the Net’ anthology. She is the author of ‘Monsoon Memories’, ‘The Forgotten Daughter’, ‘The Stolen Girl’, ‘A Sister’s Promise’, ‘A Mother’s Secret’, ‘A Daughter’s Courage’, ‘Beneath An Indian Sky’.

Aasiya Shah is an actress based in the UK. She plays series lead, Holly, in the upcoming Sci-Fi television series Raised by Wolves (2020) for TNT, directed by Ridley Scott, and also held the reoccurring role of Gemma Khan in Unforgotten (2017-2018). Other screen credits include Call the Midwife (2018) and The Level (2016).