Vinayak Verma is a writer, designer, and editor based in Bangalore. He edited the science fiction anthology Strange Worlds! Strange Times! Amazing Sci-Fi Stories, published by Speaking Tiger, which brings together eleven stories by some of India's leading fiction writers, including Manjula Padmanabhan, Jerry Pinto, Vandana Singh, and Indra Das. He is also the founding editor of Brainwave magazine and the author-illustrator of several children's books.