Lakshmi Kannan is a bilingual writer. She uses the pen-name 'Kaaveri' for her writings in Tamil. Her twenty-seven books in English and Tamil till date include poems, novels, short stories and translations. Her poems have been published in Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing; Encounter (UK & USA); The Contemporary Review (Sussex, UK); Ariel: A Review of Contemporary English Literature, Calgary, Canada; The Helix: Literary & Art Magazine, Canberra, Australia; New Letters (Kansas City, USA); Chandrabhaga (Cuttack), Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Kavya Bharati (Madurai), The Little Magazine (New Delhi), Muse India and in others.

Her recent publications in English include Wooden Cow (2021), her translation of the iconic Tamil writer T. Janakiraman's novel Marappasu for his centenary celebrations, Sipping the Jasmine Moon, poems (2019), The Glass Bead Curtain, novel (2020, c 2016), Genesis: Select Stories (2014) and Nandanvan & Other Stories (2011). In Tamil, her titles are Mutthukkal Patthu, Ten Best Stories (2015), Aathukku Poganum, novel (2011) and Kaaveri Kathaigal, Collected stories of 'Kaaveri', Vol 1 & 2 (2007).