Vinita Agrawal
Author
India
Author of four books of poetry, – Two Full Moons (Bombaykala Books), Words Not Spoken (Brown Critique), The Longest Pleasure (Finishing Line Press) and The Silk Of Hunger (AuthorsPress), Vinita is an award winning poet, editor, translator and curator of literary events. She is based in Indore, India. She was joint recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and winner of the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015. She was awarded the third prize in the Proverse Poetry prize 2018 and special mention in the Hawkers Prize 2019. Her work was shortlisted for the inaugural Dipankar Khiwani Memorial prize 2021. Her poems have won first prize at Hour of Writes. She won the Wordweavers Poetry contest in 2014 and the first prize in the Architectural Poetry Competition, 3rd Cycle – Improvisation 2021. She is Poetry Editor with Usawa Literary Review. Her poems have been published in Mascara Literary Review, Human Obscura, The Global South, Amphibian, Fox Chase Review, Indian Quarterly, Asian Cha, Punch Magazine to name a few. Her edited works include Open Your Eyes- an anthology on climate change (Hawakal) and a Memoir-Anthology – Kashmiri poet Ghulam Rasool Nazki (Ink Links). In 2021 and 2022 she co-edited the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (Hawakal). She was featured in a documentary Deepest Uprising, on twenty women poets from Asia, produced in Taiwan. She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize and on the Global Judging Panel of the SheInsprawrds. Her manuscript Twilight Language is a finalist for the Proverse prize 2022. She is a keen birder and an amateur photographer.