Smita Agarwal Biography

Smita Agarwal is the author of two collections of poems, Wish-granting Words, Poems (Ravi Dayal: New Delhi,2002) and Mofussil Notebook. Contemporary Indian Poetry in English (Brown Critique/Sampark: Calcutta,2014) . Her poems have been widely anthologized in magazines and books such as Nine Indian Women Poets (OUP: 1997) , Verse: Indian Poetry Feature (UK/USA) , Reasons For Belonging, (Penguin: 2002) , Quote poet Unquote: (Copper Canyon Press, USA: 2008) , Indian English Women Poets (Creative Books: New Delhi,2009) , We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi: New Delhi,2009) and The HarperCollins Book of Indian Poetry,2012. She has won awards sponsored by the British Council for her poetry and has been Writer in Residence at the universities of Stirling, Scotland and Kent, U.K. Her critical articles have appeared in Poetry Review (UK) and Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) . She is Professor of English, University of Allahabad, India, and editor and translator for Plath Profiles. Her hobby is Indian music and her songs are available on http: //www.beatofindia.com and You Tube.
Her latest work is 'Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English', ed. Smita Agarwal, (Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York,2014) .