Vidya Subramaniam is a Tamil author. She has been writing novels and short stories for close to three decades. Born and brought up in Mylapore, she has to her credit... eighty five books...and has won a slew of awards... including a Tamil Nadu State Award.

An anthology of her short stories has been translated in English titled 'Beyond the Frontier'.Two of her short stories have also been translated and featured in a book titled 'Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction' from the Blaft stable. Her writings are usually a combination of philosophy, spirituality, and social consciousness. She generally writes about middle-class urban women; her characters are more independent and self-reliant then many in Tamil popular fiction, and her stories often have a glimmer of feminism.