Shinie Antony is a writer based in Bangalore. Mainly a short-fiction writer - Barefoot and Pregnant and Seance on a Sunday Afternoon - she has compiled the anthologies Kerela, Kerala, Quite Contrary and Why We Don't Talk. While Kerala, Kerala, Quite Contrary has stories by Susan Visvanathan, Cardinal Vithayathil, Gauri Amma, Sara Joseph, Hormis Tharakan and Shreekumar Varma among others, Why We Don't Talk has a foreword by Shashi Deshpande and stories by Anita Nair, Chetan Bhagat, Jaishree Misra, Anjum Hassan, Jahnavi Barua, Usha KR and others.
Shinie Antony has written two novels: Kardamom Kisses (2005) and When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied (2011). She has also written a book for children, Goddy Tales, and contributed to anthologies Voices of Change - Extraordinary Life Stories (Plan India) and Beantown Boomtown (on Bangalore compiled by Jayanth Kodkani and Edwin Sudhir).