Monika Pant is a teacher of English with 15 years experience at various levels. She had been teaching in La Martiniere Girls’ College for the last 10 years and was in charge of the College Magazine there. She taught communication skills at TCS, Lucknow. She is she has authored two series of English Grammar books and is currently working on a series of literature readers for classes I to VIII. Her articles, poems and short stories have been published in various collections and she has won the first prize in the short fiction writing contest conducted by Platform Magazine. She is a regular contributor to ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ series and is now working on a couple of novels. She can be reached at mpant65@gmail.com