Sukrita Paul Kumar

Sukrita Paul Kumar, born in Kenya, has been a resident poet and Fellow at the prestigious International Writing Programme, Iowa, USA. A former Fellow at IIAS (Shimla) and honorary faculty at Durrell Centre, Corfu, Greece, she has several collections of poetry, translations, and critical works. Additionally, she has held exhibitions of her paintings. She held the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the University of Delhi. Currently, she serves as the Guest Editor for Indian Literature at Sahitya Akademi. In 2023, she was awarded the Tagore Literary Prize for her latest book of selected poems, Salt and Pepper.