अरुंधती सुब्रमण्यम / Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam (born 1967) is the author of three books of poetry: On Cleaning Bookshelves (Allied, 2001) and Where I Live (Allied, 2005); Where I Live: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Publishers, UK, 2009). She has co-edited an anthology of Indian love poems in English (Confronting Love, Penguin, 2005) and has authored a prose work, The Book of Buddha (Penguin India, 2005). She lives in Mumbai.
Her poetry has been published in national and international anthologies and journals, and translated into several languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Italian and Spanish. She was awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship for a writing residency at the University of Stirling, Scotland, in 2003, and a Visiting Arts Fellowship to tour the UK on a series of poetry readings, organised by the Poetry Society, in 2006. She has been invited to read her work at festivals in India and in Italy, Spain, UK, Turkey and West Africa.
She is the Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web. She also curates Indian classical dance and an interactive arts forum at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai. She writes on literature and culture.