Vinita Agrawal

Vinita Agrawal has authored five collections of poetry--the latest, Twilight Language, won the Proverse Prize Hong Kong 2021. Other honors include the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018, the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015, special mention in the Hawkers Prize 2019, and being on the shortlist for the inaugural Dipankar Khiwani Memorial prize 2021. She co-edits the Yearbook series of Indian Poetry in English, and has edited two anthologies on climate change: Open Your Eyes (2020) and Count Every Breath (2023). Based in Indore, her work has been widely published and anthologized. She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize, Co-chair for the Global Council for Excellence for Environment and Sustainability, and was one of the twenty poets to be featured in a Taiwanese documentary on Asian poets, titled Deepest Uprising.