Sridala Swami is a poet, essayist and photographer. Her first collection of poems, A Reluctant Survivor (2007), was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award in 2008. It was followed by Escape Artist (2014), which was shortlisted for the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize. Her work has featured in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008).
Sridala was the 2011 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and was a Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, 2013. In 2020 she was on the jury of the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
She has also written four books for children. Some of these books have been translated into many languages including Polish, French and Korean.
Sridala Swami is a poet, essayist and photographer. Her first collection of poems, A Reluctant Survivor (2007), was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award in 2008. It was followed by Escape Artist (2014), which was shortlisted for the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize. Her work has featured in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008).
Sridala was the 2011 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and was a Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, 2013. In 2020 she was on the jury of the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
She has also written four books for children. Some of these books have been translated into many languages including Polish, French and Korean.
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