She has published a number of books, which include Prem - Ek Album, the Hindi translation of her poetry anthology in Malayalam, Pranayam Oralbum.

Vatakkeppattu Manakkal Girija was born on July 27, 1961, to Vadakkeppattu Vasudevan Bhattathirippad and Gauri, at Paruthipra, a village near Shornur in Palakkad district in the south Indian state of Kerala.

[5][6] Girija has published eleven books of which Pranayam Oralbum[7] has been translated into Hindi by A. Aravindakshan, under the title, Prem-Ek Album.

[15] She has also edited book, Ellaarudeyum bhoomi, a compilation of poems of Savithri Antharjanam,[16] and has translated the Portuguese novel, Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (English: My Sweet Orange Tree) into Malayalam under the name, Ente Panchara Orange Maram.

[1] Girija received the 2018 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry for her anthology, Budha Purnima.