Deepa Kozhisseri is an anthropologist and writer passionate about gender, nature, and culture. As a socio-ecological analyst, she is inspired by recent scholarship that offers new ways of analyzing the Anthropocene. She is trained in sociology and social sciences and is adept at bringing multidisciplinary approaches to research. As she works with stories, songs, folklore, and oral histories, she is drawn to the curative power of narratives. She is keen on the emerging work in environment and society that is more than human, political, and textured. She teaches sociology, development studies, and writing and has supplementary training in film studies. She is fascinated by the play of research, new media, and arts.

Deepa completed her PhD in humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She finished her viva on 29 September 2024. As an RCC Landhaus Fellow, she will work on her first monograph, Forest Futures: A Feminist Political Ecology of a Frontier Healing System in Kerala.