Abhilipsa Sahoo is one of the 100 commended poets for Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, and a Best of The Net nominee. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Perverse, JAKE, Bending Genres, Redivider, and elsewhere. She’s a software engineer based in Bengaluru, India. You can find her on X: @_abelisaurus_ and Instagram: @_abelisaurus_.
Poems by Abhilipsa Sahoo: ‘Once, I was a little bird slowly blooming out of the warm embrace of the nest to learn the taste of first flight, believing that distance was proof of growth. Now I’m just plainly tired of being the burnt-out lamp on my parents’ windowsill’