Career
Chaya Devi is the wife of the late Abburi Varadarajeswara Rao, himself a writer, critic and former Chairman, Official Languages Commission. She is also the daughter-in-law of Abburi Ramakrishna, a pioneer of the romantic first and later the progressive literary movement. Chaya Devi has been active in literary circles since the fifties and even at 71 years of age, is still known as a creative feminist writer
She has also translated German fiction.
Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages. She has served as librarian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the sixties.