Uma Shirodkar is a literary translator based in Mumbai, India working primarily from Marathi into English. She was a Translation Fellow in the 2022 cohort of South Asia Speaks, a literary mentorship programme. Since 2020, she has been running Lyrically Obscure, an Instagram platform where she explores translation through the music, cinema, languages and literature of the Indian subcontinent. Uma is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Literary Translation & Creative Writing from the Ahmedabad University, India.