Rosalyn D’Mello (she/her) grew up as a ‘Bombay Goan’ in Mumbai. She graduated in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and earned her Master’s degree from the Centre of English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. After a brief stint as a theatre critic in Mumbai, in 2010, she adopted Delhi as her base for almost ten years before moving to her current location in Tramin, an alpine town in the autonomous province of South Tyrol in Italy. Over her decade-long career as a freelancer, she has performed various callings as a feminist writer, art critic, columnist, essayist, editor, researcher, consultant and proofreader across industries.

Her debut memoir, A Handbook for my Lover was published by HarperCollins India in 2015 to critical acclaim. Her unusual and experimental essays are part of several international anthologies. Her art criticism has been published in a range of magazines and newspapers, such as Camera Austria, Art Review, Art + Auction, Tate Etc, Jamini, The Caravan, Seminar, Vogue India, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, Business Standard, etc. She is represented by David Godwin Associates.

Rosalyn writes a weekly feminist column for mid-day in which she explores the intersections between domestic itinerancy, political activism and autobiography. Her monthly columns for STIR further synthesise memoir, art criticism, and intersectional feminist theory while reflecting on historically marginalised artistic practices. As an India Foundation for the Arts grant recipient, she has been researching South Asian artists’ studios based on informal methodologies evolved through her essay-length columns for OPEN.

She is also an educator and guest lecturer. She was an evaluator for the Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2020. She was a fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (2021-2022) and an Ocean Fellowship Mentor (2021).

She continues, meanwhile, to labour on Milking Time, an autotheoretical treatise on maternal subjectivity, metabolic living and feminist jouissance. She is exploring an artisanal future as a crochet evangelist, embroider, and home cook.