Sruthi Amalan (pen name ‘Cypher’) is a self-taught brown and queer Tamil diaspora poet living in Canada. Her work has been featured by the Ontario Poetry Society and is set to appear in the Canadian Syncopation Literary Journal, Queer Gaze Mag, and Arcana Poetry Press. In her spare time, she loves to watch local music and theatre performances, spend time with her father and brother, and play board games with her friends. Sruthi released her first poetry chapbook, Where the Clay Meets the Flame, in February 2024.