# Sudeep Sen

Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.

## Early life

He was educated at St. Columba's School in Delhi and received a degree in English literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Sen also received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University and was an international scholar at Davidson College. From 1992 to 1993 he was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and in 1995 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. In 1995 he set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts. He has a son named Aria.

## Works

Sen's books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Rain, Aria, Postcards from Bangladesh, Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 and EroText.

### Poetry

* Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (1983)
* The Man in the Hut (1986)
* The Lunar Visitations (1990)
* Kali in Ottava Rima (1992)
* Parallel (1993)
* New York Times (1993)
* South African Woodcut (1994)
* Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (1994)
* Dali's Twisted Hands (1995)
* Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (1997)
* Retracing American Contours (1999)
* A Blank Letter (2000)
* Lines of Desire (2000)
* Almanac (2000)
* Perpetual Diary (2001)
* Monsoon (2002)
* Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent (2003)
* Prayer Flag (2003)
* Rain (2005)
* Heat (2009)
* Winter Frances (2010)
* Mediterraneo (2012)
* Ladakh (2012)
* Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 (2013)
* Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (2015)
* Incarnat | Incarnadine (2017)
* Path to Inspiration (2017) (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi)

### Prose

* Postcards from Bangladesh (2002) (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch)
* BodyText: Dramatic Monologues in Motion (2009)
* EroText (2016)

### Translations

* In Another Tongue (2000)
* Love & Other Poems (2001)
* Spellbound & Other Poems (2003)
* Love Poems (2005)
* Aria (2009)

### Editor, co-editor

* 1995 Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia and the Diaspora. University of London.
* 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets. Edinburgh: Lines Review.
* 1998 Index for Censorship (poems); Songs of Partition (portfolio). London: Index for Censorship
* 2001-18: Six Seasons Review. Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts.
* 2001 Hayat Saif: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh.
* 2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh. Dhaka: The British Council.
* 2002 Dash: Four New German Writers. Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts.
* 2002 Shawkat Haider: A Day with Destiny. Dhaka: Azeez.
* 2004 Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India. Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings (in Macedonian).
* 2005 Sestet: Six New Writers. Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts.
* 2006 Biblio South Asian English Poetry (portfolio). New Delhi: Biblio.
* 2006–present Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image. London, New York, New Delhi: Aark Arts.
* 2009 The Literary Review. Indian Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University.
* 2010 World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India. University of Oklahoma.
* 2011 Poetry Review Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry. UK: Poetry Review.
* 2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. HarperCollins.
* 2012 The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians. Belfast: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University.
* 2013: The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women. University of Nebraska.
* 2015: World English Poetry. Dhaka: Bengal Foundation.

## Awards

| Year | Works | Awards |
| 2022 | Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation | joint-winner of the US$10,000 Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize for 20221-22 |
| 2018 | Postcards from Bangladesh | UPL Excellence Award |
| 2017 | EroText | Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence |
| 2017 | EroText | Best Book of the Year |
| 2009 | Aria | AK Ramanujan Translation Award |
| 2009 | Blue Nude | Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award |
| 2007 | | Kathak Literary Award |
| 2004 | | Pleiades Honour |