Natasha Soobramanien is a writer and teacher based in London. Her fiction has appeared in the London art writing journal, The Happy Hypocrite (Book Works), artist Chris Evans’ anthology, Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks (Studio Voltaire) and most recently, in Luke Williams’ debut novel, The Echo Chamber (Hamish Hamilton, UK and Penguin Viking, US). Natasha is currently collaborating with Luke on an oblique history of the island of Diego Garcia which seeks to examine how power uses narrative to enforce and extend its position. She has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia and her first novel, Genie and Paul, a cannibalistic translation of Bernardin Henri de Saint-Pierre’s eighteenth-century romance, Paul et Virginie, will be published by Myriad Editions in Summer 2012.