Described as 'one of the finest poets writing in India today' [The Hindu, 2010] and 'a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself' [Indian Literature, 2021], Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and author of fourteen books of poetry and prose. Her recent work includes the Penguin anthology of female mystic poetry, Wild Women; the poetry volume, Love Without a Story; and a prose work on contemporary women on spiritual journeys, Women Who Wear Only Themselves. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry 2020, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry 2015, her awards include the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Charles Wallace and Homi Bhabha fellowships, among others. She has been active as curator, performing arts critic and poetry editor. She divides her time between Mumbai, Chennai and New York.
