ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is a leading Indian poet and author of fourteen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent work includes the Penguin anthology of female mystic poetry, Wild Women, and the prose work, 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 of the India domain of the Poetry International Web. She divides her time between Mumbai, Chennai and New York.