Malavika Kannan is a Gen Z writer from Florida, now based in Brooklyn. Her debut young adult novel, All the Yellow Suns, was published by Little & Brown in 2023, and she writes about identity and culture for San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. On the internet side, Malavika posts, yaps, and draws comics about queer identity for an audience of 40,000 across Instagram and TikTok. She graduated from Stanford in 2024.