Poet & Editor


 

 

 Vinita Agrawal’s latest collection of poems Twilight Language was the winner of the Proverse prize Hongkong 2021. She has authored five books of poetry. She is based in Indore, India. She was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015 and a special mention in the Hawkers Prize 2019. Her work was shortlisted for the inaugural Dipankar Khiwani Memorial prize 2021. She is Poetry Editor with Usawa. She co edits the Yearbook series of Indian Poetry in English. She has edited two  anthologies on climate change Open Your Eyes in 2020 and Count Every Breath in 2023 both published by Hawakal. Her work has been widely published nationally and internationally and widely anthologised. She was one of the twenty poets to be featured in a documentary on Asian poets titled Deepest Uprising made in Taiwan. She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize. She is Co chair for CoE - a Global Council for Excellence for Environment and Sustainability. She is on the Advisory Board G100 World Peace and a Council Member of WICCI. She is on the expert board for reviewing content at MomJunction.com. She is an amateur birder and photographer.