Rosalyn D’Mello (she/her/they) is an intersectional feminist writer, art critic, columnist, essayist, editor, educator, and researcher.

© 2016 Pallavi Gaur

© 2016 Pallavi Gaur

She is the author of A Handbook for My Lover (HarperCollins India 2015 / Hardie Grant Australia 2016). She writes a weekly feminist column for mid-day, and a monthly memoir-based art column on contemporary art for STIR. She was a fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (2021-22), an Ocean Fellowship Mentor (2021), and the recipient of an India Foundation for the Arts research grant (2019-2022). Her freelance writing has been internationally published and anthologised. She is represented by David Godwin Associates.

Having grown up in Mumbai, Rosalyn is now based in South Tyrol, Italy, where she braves harsh alpine winters by harnessing her sensual memories of Goan sunshine.