Described as 'one of the finest poets writing in India today' [The Hindu, 2010] and 'a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself' [Indian Literature, 2021], Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and author of fourteen books of poetry and prose. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry 2020, her awards include the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Charles Wallace and Homi Bhabha fellowships, among others. 

Her recent work includes the Penguin anthology of female mystic poetry, Wild Women; a prose work on contemporary women on spiritual journeys,  Women Who Wear Only Themselves. A new book of poems is forthcoming this year.