Vinayak Varma is the author-illustrator of "The Sunshower Song," "Angry Akku," and "Jadav and the Tree-Place," among other picture books. He was the editor of the science fiction anthology "Strange Worlds! Strange Times!" and the founding editor and art director of the science magazine Brainwave. His artwork has appeared in magazines like Interzone, Soup, and Dark & Light, and in various books for Penguin, Harper Collins, Hachette, Duckbill, Scholastic, and Pratham Books, among others. He is a recipient of The Young World-Goodbooks Award, the Publishing Next Digital Book of the Year Award, and the Federation of Indian Publishers' First Prize for Excellence in Book Production, and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the BSFA Award. In his independent design practice, Vinayak has helped create and shepherd several F&B and hospitality brands in Bangalore, among which, most recently, he was the Brand Custodian at Geist Brewing Company for its initial six years of operation. He is a visiting professor of Communication Design at the School of Design and Innovation, RV University, and has conducted workshops and lectures on visual arts and publishing at Azim Premji University, St. Joseph's University, and Srishti. Vinayak lives in Bangalore with his partner Yamini and their feline overlord Monkey. When not drawing or writing or plotting to start trade unions, Vinayak makes strange and dystopian synth-driven soundscapes for his solo music project Moral Panic Button.