Birth: Born in late 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
Education: Holds a Ph.D. and D.Litt in English Literature.

Notable Works:

• Criticism: Post Eliot Poetry: A Voyage from Conflict to Isolation, Don Criticism Down the Ages, Treatment of Love and Death in Post-War American Women Poets; Feminist Poetics: Where Kingfishers Catch Fire, Translating Racial Memory, Men Are Not Beyond Repair.
• Essays: The Map of Womanhood, The Need to Cleanse the Mind, Water that Drinks Stone, Shared Hearth, Triya Charitram: Uttar Kanda, The Feminist Perspective of Freedom, The Sociology of Feminist Discourse: The Medieval and Renaissance Periods.
• Poetry: Letters with Incorrect Addresses, Seed Letters, In the City of Time, Anushtup, The Woman in Poetry, Rough Palms, Grass-Grain, The Horizon in a Basket: Therigatha (2014), Water Remembered Everything, Journey of Closed Paths.
• Memoirs: There Was a City, There Was a Shakespeare, There Was a Charles Dickens.
• Novels: Avantar Katha, The Cage with Ten Doors, Tinka Tinke Paas, Ainasaz, Trin Dhari Ot.
• Short Stories: The Antihero.
• Translations: Nagamandala (Girish Karnad), poems by Rilke, Afro-English Poems, Across the Atlantic(Contemporary English Poetry), Women Speak (Feminist Poetry from World Literature), The Grass is Singing, and Les Murray's Poems, among others.

Awards:
Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Rajbhasha Parishad Award, Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award, Sahityakar Samman, Girija Kumar Mathur Award, Parampara Samman, Sahitya Setu Samman, Kedar Samman, Shamsher Samman, Savitribai Phule Samman, Muktibodh Samman, and Mahadevi Samman.

Current Position:
Professor of English Literature at the University of Delhi.