BIO Nalini Priyadarshni is a prominent Indian poet writing in English and widely published in India and world over in numerous literary magazines and journals. Her eclectic tastes reflect in her poems, widely anthologized and collected in Doppleganger in My House and Lines Across Oceans which she co-authored with Poet Laureate, late D. Russel Micnhimer….
BIO Having explored the worlds of banking and urban governance in senior positions, Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy is currently the Hon. Lit. Advisor of The Cultural Centre of Vijayawada and Amaravati (CCVA). She has curated 4 International Multilingual Poetry Anthologies. The latest Amaravati Poetic Prism 2017 has 948 poems in 85 languages contributed by about 500 poets…
BIO Sukrita Paul Kumar, a well-known poet and critic in English was born and brought up in Kenya and is at present living in Delhi. She held the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the University of Delhi, till recently. An Honorary Fellow of International Writing Programme, University of Iowa (USA) and a former Fellow of…
BIO Namarita Kathait is a poet at heart who enjoys spoken word poetry on stage and healing through it. She has done masters in Creative Writing from the University of Westminster and English Literature from the University of Delhi. Being co-founder of a charity trust named Bhor, her poems deal with mental health, sense of…
BIO Abhay K. is a poet and editor. He has published six collection of poems including The Eight-Eyed Lord of Kathmandu (The Onslaught Press, UK) and The Seduction of Delhi (Bloomsbury). He is the editor of CAPITALS (Bloomsbury) and 100 Great Indian Poems (Bloomsbury). He received the SAARC Literary Award 2013. His Earth Anthem…
BIO Anjana Deshpande is a psychotherapist and an occasional poet. In both roles she uses the power of writing for healing, recovery and growth. A trained poetry and journal therapist, she uses writing as a way to manage distress and empower clients to self soothe. As a poet, she uses writing to connect to her…
Neelam Saxena Chandra is a bilingual writer and poet, who writes in English and Hindi. She has written over forty books, including twenty seven poetry collections, four novels, one novella, five collections of short stories and ten children’s books. Her awards and honors include – Bharat Nirman Literary Award, Premchand Award, Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry…
BIO NABINA DAS is a poet and writer based in Hyderabad. Her poetry collections are BLUE VESSEL and INTO THE MIGRANT CITY. She has authored a novel titled FOOTPRINTS IN THE BAJRA and her short fiction volume is THE HOUSE OF TWINING ROSES: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped. A 2012 Charles Wallace creative…
BIO Mona Dash is an Indian writer settled in London. With an education in Telecoms Engineering and Management from Odisha, she works as a sales manager in a leading global technology organisation. She writes fiction and poetry and her work has been anthologised widely and published in international journals. She has a Masters in Creative…
BIO Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the Founder of Bhor Foundation, a mental health charity. Her areas of work are mental health, domestic violence and trauma. Jhilmil is currently working on a PhD in the UK and her poetry and other writings have been widely published and anthologised. Jhilmil is…
BIO Smeetha Bhoumik is a poet, artist and the Founder of Women Empowered-India, a poetic forum for sharing ideas. Her recent poetry features in literary journals like Muse India, Indian Review, Neesah and will form part of an international anthology titled ‘Writing Language, Culture and Development, Africa Vs Asia Volume 1 Anthology’; and has also…
BIO Usha Akella has authored three books of poetry, one chapbook, and scripted and produced one musical drama. She is pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing at Cambridge University, UK. She read with a group of eminent South Asian Diaspora poets at the House of Lords in June 2016. Her work has been included in…
