Anupama is a poet, novelist, professor of English, and research scholar. She dons two hats: creative and scholarly, and on this webpage, you will find links to some of her writings.

She is the author of Twenty Odd Love Poems (The Writer's Workshop, 2008); the novel Where Mayflies Live Forever (Picador, 2022); and several short stories and poems published in The Wire, Himal Southasian, and Postcolonial Text, among others. Anupama was the 2021 Writer-in-Residence at Samyukta Research Foundation (SRF), Thiruvananthapuram, where she wrote her first novel. She is also the Editor of Samyukta Fiction, an online journal for short stories housed in SRF.

Her critical writings include the widely-reviewed monograph Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures (Palgrave, 2012); "Maritime Transmodernities," an edited collection of essays (Postcolonial Text, 2019), and several essays in academic, peer-reviewed journals such as South Asian History and Culture, Asian Review of World Histories, Economic and Political Weekly, University of Toronto Quarterly, among others. Her current research interests include Indian Ocean Studies, working class literature, environmental humanities, translation and adaptation studies.

She is a 2024 Landhaus Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.