Sukrita Paul Kumar (born in Kenya) has published several collections of poems, translations and critical books; her most recent collections of poems are Yellow, Salt & Pepper and Vanishing Words. An invited poet at the International Writing Programme (Iowa, USA) and a poet-in-residence in Hong Kong, she is a former Fellow of IIAS, Shimla. She retired as Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, University of Delhi. Currently, guest editor of Indian Literature and co-editor of “Writer in Context” series of books published by Routledge UK, she was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Award for Literature 2023. You can find her on X: @PaulSukrita.