Deepa Bhasthi is a writer, translator and farmer-in-progress based in Kodagu, southern India. She writes on literature, visual art and the politics of culture and has published in over forty publications nationally and internationally. 

Her translation, from Kannada to English, of Dr Kota Shivarama Karanth's novel 'The Same Village The Same Tree' was published in 2022. Fate's Game and Other Stories, a collection of short stories, by Kodagina Gouramma, one of the earliest feminist writers in Kannada was published worldwide in January 2023. She is currently working on her third and fourth books in translation and her first non-fiction. She occasionally works on visual art projects. Her research interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, land versus landscape and the politics of food.'