Mayanka Goel is a writer and artist from Mumbai, India. She studied journalism at SCMSophia, Mumbai, where she wrote features for the daily newspaper The Hindu. She graduated from NYU Tisch with an MFA in Dramatic Writing where she received the Tisch Future Screenwriters’ Fellowship Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Writing Award. She has written commercials for brands like Baskin Robbins and was a writer for a series of short films about women in sports and comedy for Humans of Bombay. Her works often feature women who defy convention, along with millennial and Gen Z humour.