Dr. Dipika Mishra is a poet and a biologist from India. Her innate love for science led her to pursue a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology at the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER). However, her creative bent of mind compelled her to fuse science with poetry and thus create scientific poetry. Her poems have been published in the Consilience journal, blogs of Global Youth Biodiversity Network, The Xylom, and ScicomChall. Further, she is also interested in preaching science through science communication and was an eLIFE community Ambassador for the year 2019-2020 and has also published scicomm articles in The Wire Science and PLOS blogs. You can find her on Twitter (@dipikamishra16) and her articles at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0259-985X.