Nilanjana Bhowmick is an award-winning journalist and feminist author. Over two and a half decades, she has reported on politics, gender, and climate change for publications including the Washington Post, TIME, BBC, National Geographic, and The Guardian. She is the author of Lies Our Mothers Told Us and How Not to Be a Superwoman, both of which received wide critical and popular acclaim. Lies Our Mothers Told Us won the 2023 South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity and was nominated for several other awards.