Latika is an Indian New Zealander who lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She has worked as a university lecturer, a researcher, a creative writing tutor and currently as a freelance writer. Her fiction has been broadcast on Radio New Zealand, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including Landfall and takahē. She has written three books of fiction: A collection of short stories, Rising to the Surface (2013, Steele Roberts Aotearoa), a YA novel, The World I Found (2023, Black Giraffe Press) and a children’s middle grade novel, Ruby and the Land of Birds (2026, Korobee Press).