Vinita Agrawal
Vinita Agrawal is based in Indore, India. She holds a MA in political science and a diploma in Computer Applications. She has authored seven books of poetry - Words Not Spoken, The Longest Pleasure, The Silk of Hunger, Two Full Moons, Twilight Language, Eartha and The Hour of God. Books edited by her include two anthologies on climate change - Open Your Eyes and Count Every Breath, The Centennial Volume on Nissim Ezekiel - Poet & Father and one on the Kashmiri Poet Ghulam Rasool Nazki. Her poem Conversation with a Seed won an award at Chrysalis Brew Poetry in 2025. She was runner-up in the Mānoa Poetry Contest 2025. She also received the third prize for her poem The Light Phenomena from Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) in 2025. She is the recipient of the Jayanta Mahapatra National Award for Literature 2024, the Proverse Prize Hongkong 2021, the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015. She was long listed for the Kingfisher Poetry Prize 2025 for her poem Fonio. Her book Eartha was long listed for the Sarojini Naidu Award for Poetry 2025. The book won the YathaKatha Award 2025 and the Voyages of Verse award under the aegis of One Tribune in 2025 and longlisted in The Wise Owl Awards. Eartha was also shortlisted for the Pragati-E-Vichaar Literature Festival 2026. She won a special mention in the Hawkers Prize 2019. Her work was shortlisted for the inaugural Dipankar Khiwani Memorial prize 2021. She co-edits the Yearbook series of Indian Poetry in English. She was former Poetry Editor with Usawa Literary Review. Her work has been widely published and anthologised. She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize. She is also the author of a children’s fiction book Jade and the Harmony Flyers. Her work has been published in Global South, Pratik, Mascara Review, Indian Literature, Asian Cha, Voice and Verse, Tiger Moth Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine and the Knopf Newsletter, Canary, Tabula Rasa, Parcham, Chrysalis Blue, SFPA, Blue Mountain Review and Madras Courier among others. She has read at several festivals in India and at the Filey festival in Mexico. She was one of the twenty poets to be featured in a documentary on Asian poets titled Deepest Uprising made in Taiwan. She is a birder and a photographer. She has deep compassion for animals and a genuine love for nature. www.vinitawords.com
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