Ranu Uniyal is former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Lucknow. She has four poetry collections in English: Across the Divide (2006), December Poems (2012), The Day We Went Strawberry Picking in Scarborough (2018), This could be a Love Poem for You (2025), and the Hindi connection Saeeda Ke Ghar (2021). She is a founding member of PYSSUM, a centre for people with special needs in Lucknow. She is an Advisory board member (English) at Sahitya Akademi. Website: ranuuniyal.com.
Fiction by Ranu Uniyal: ‘Like old times, they each sit in their own shells. Unable to communicate. Unable to speak. Like old times their eyes still search for each other in familiar spots. Somehow, they never meet.’