Vinita Agarwal (private)
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. Joint Recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and winner of the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015. She is Poetry Editor with Usawa Literary Review. Her poem won a prize at the Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 and was published as a part of the winning poems anthology titled Mingled Voices 2.
More recently her poem won a special mention in the Hawker Prize for best South Asian poetry. Her poems have been published in the Mascara Review, Punch magazine, Tiger Moth Review, India Quarterly, Teesta journal, Bombay Review among others. Three of her poems find place in the Best Asian Poetry 2021 published by Kitab. She has contributed a monthly column on Asian Poets on the literary blog of the Hamline university, Saint Paul, USA in 2016-17.
In September 2020, she edited an anthology on climate change titled Open Your Eyes (pub. Hawakal). The anthology was widely reviewed. One of her video poems on climate change was featured at COP26 summit at Glasgow in 2021. She has co-edited the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020-21 (Hawakal). She was featured in a documentary on twenty women poets from Asia, produced in Taiwan. She has read at the FILEY Book Fair, Merida, Mexico, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival among others. She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize.  She has curated literary events for PEN Mumbai. Read more about her at vinitawords.com