Anu Majumdar first came to Auroville in 1979 where she has worked in several areas including the Matrimandir construction site and as a dancer-choreographer with the Auroville Dance Lab Her books include Refugees from Paradise and God Enchanter, (fiction), Island of Infinity and Infinity Papers (YA) Mobile Hour and Light Matter (poetry). Her poems and stories have been anthologized, written for choreography, for art installations and published in Prairie Schooner, The Punch Magazine, Scroll and Arts Illustrated and others. Auroville: A City for the Future is her ninth book.