Sukrita Paul Kumar, born and brought up in Kenya, is a poet and critic. She holds the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Cluster Innovation Centre, Delhi University. Formerly, a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she is an Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Programme, University of Iowa (USA), as also of Hong Kong Baptist University and Cambridge Seminars. She has been a recipient of many fellowships and residencies.

 

Her books of poems include Dream Catcher, Poems Come Home (with translations by Gulzar), Without Margins and Folds of Silence. Amongst others, Sukrita’s critical works are Narrating Partition and The New Story. Her edited/co-edited books include Speaking for Herself :Asian Women’s Writings (Penguin) and many others.