Rati Saxena Biography

Editor in Chief
Rati Saxena - Poet/ Translator/ Editor (kritya) / Director Poetry festivals -kritya and Vedic scholar. She has 6 collections of poetry in Hindi and 5ive in English (Translated) and one each book translated in to Malayalam, Italian, Estonian, and Serbian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Turkey and English translated by other poets. Her poems have been translated in other international languages like Chinese, Albanian, Uzbek, Indonesian, German etc. She has five travelogues in Hindi, two Memoirs in Hindi -English" Every thing is past tense " , and a criticism on the work of famous Malayalam Poet Balamaniyamma's work. Her study on the Atharvaveda has been published as " The Seeds of the Mind- a fresh approach to the study of Atharvaveda" under the fellowship of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. She has translated about 15 Malayalam works, both prose and poetry, into Hindi and two poetry books of Norwegian poets, one each from Welsh, Vietnamese and serbarian languages. Her recent important work is research book in poetry therapy- A fist which opens - a poetry therapy from distant past to present future. She has a number of articles published regarding Indology in a number of journals. She has been invited for poetry reading in more than 36 prestigious poetry festivals around the world, among some are very popular e.g., The Struga Poetry Evening (Macedonia) (2010) the prestigious poetry festival in Medellin -Colombia (2011 and 2014) , ,10th Edition of " Ritratti di Poesia" Feb 2016 and China's Moon Festival and Shanghai book fair. She is the only Indian participant in some imp poetry festivals like Iran's Fajr Poetry Festival, Iran (2014) , International Istanbul Poetry Festival (IIPF) Turkey (2014) ,4th international Eskisehir Poetry Festival Turkey (2014) . And a Special poetry reading in A Caruna, Spain (2015) , Poetry reading at Foundation Vicente Risco, at Allariz (Spain) . She has also been invited to some American Universities like Mary Mount University in Los Angeles and University of Seattle (USA) to talk on Vedic poetry and recite her own poetry. Her poem was poem been chosen in popular book of china " 110 modern poems of the world" ;) 2015, " Her poem was also part of space mission by Jaxa, Japan, along with 24 other poems. In 2002. She was also artist in Former Artist-in-residence at Ebenboeckhaus Munichand Artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta and China_ a 600 hundred years old village

Her awards include a fellowship from the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (2004-5) , the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation (2000) , the State Bank of Travancore Award for Poetry (2001) , Naji Naaman's Literary Prizes (International) for a complete work (2016) , the DJS Translation Award for Chinese poetry (2018; DJS is the acronym in Chinese of Emily Dickinson's name) and special award in the first Crete International Poetry Festival for her poetry,2019, the Rajasthan Patrika prize for best poem (2020) , Poet of Year Award of 5th Boao International Poetry Award, Grand silver medal LIFFT -Euresia 2023, RAJASTHAN Sahitya Akedemi's highest award (Academy of letters) - Meera Puraskar 2023. Kerala Sahitya Akedemi's samgra Sahitya Puraskar.

She is founder and editor of the first bilingual web journal kritya, which started in 2005, and founder and festival director of kritya poetry festival which is active from 2005 onwards.

She is one of the Founder member and Asian Coordinator Of the World Poetry Movement. Member of the journal's editorial board-Multilingual Journal of Literature and Opto-Art " WürZarT, " and Member of scientific board Canzoniere, an international book-cd series devoted to poetry with music