Dr. Sulakshna Sharma (b.1980) is a critic, reviewer, editor of three books on ‘Reader Response to Poetry of D. C. Chambial’ and a short story writer. She has published more than a dozen research papers in refereed journals and various anthologies besides about fifty reviews. She is a Ph.D. in English from H.P.U., Shimla under the title: "Sibling Relationships: A Psychological Study of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Kishwar Desai’s Witness The Night and Toni Morrison’s Beloved". She is, at present, Lecturer in English and Associate Editor of Poetcrit.
Her first short story book, When Devil Married God: An Anthology of Stories, is available on all Amazon platforms (National and International) / Amazon Kindle. Suspenseful thrillers with a tinge of horror are the hallmark of her book. She writes under the pen name, Shelly Sharma.