Born in Kerala, South India in 1971, Shelton Pinheiro has been writing poems while working in advertising. His poem #50 has been published in the February 2011 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. The predominant concerns of his poems are about the often unnoticed incidentals and the in-betweens of urban life. Mostly titleless, his poems, like most things that matter, are numbered. He writes about poetry and life at shelspace.com. He lives and works in the city of Kochi in India.