Tialila Kikon is a poet, writer and educator based in Dimapur, Nagaland. Her poems and stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals. Her first book of poems, Paper Cranes (2016) published by Cyberwit Publishers, Allahabad was selected to be kept in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Sky Bride and Other Tales Retold is her first collection of folktales in collaboration with six young illustrators from Nagaland, through the initiative of the Act of Kindness Society.