K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in

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. Her poem, ''

In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick "In Santacruz, Diagnosed Home Sick" is a poem by the Indian English poet and novelist K Srilata. The poem won First Prize in the Eighth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1998. This was the first major literary ...

'' won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the

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and

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) in 1998. She has also been awarded the Unisun British Council Poetry Award (2007) and the Charles Wallace fellowship for a writing residency (2010). Her

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''Table for Four'' was long-listed in 2009 for the Man Asian Literary Prize and released in 2011.

Career

Her first book of poems, ''Seablue Child'', was published in 2000, followed by ''Arriving Shortly'' (2011). Other poetry collections are ''Writing Octopus'' (2013) and ''Bookmarking the Oasis'' (2015). She also translated from Tamil to English two millennia worth of poetry titled ''Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry'' - along with Lakshmi Holmstrom and Subashree Krishnaswamy. Her other work includes a translation of R. Vatsala's Tamil novel ''Once there was a girl (Vattathul)'' and a translation of women's writing from the Self-Respect Movement ''The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History''. Yoda Press has published an Indo-Irish collaborative poetry anthology ''All the Worlds Between'' that she co-edited with Fiona Bolger. Srilata has been a writer-in-residence at the

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, a
Sangam House
and at the Yeonhui Art Space in

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. She was a

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pre-doctoral scholar at the

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, Santa Cruz. She co-curates th
CMI Arts Initiative
along with Madhavan Mukund and K.V. Subrahmanyam, apart from hosting a writing residency in partnership wit
Sangam House
Srilata is also part of the team that run
Yavanika Press
an e-publishing site specializing in poetry. She is also a professor at the

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...

where she teaches Creative Writing, Fiction, Advanced English and Translation Studies. She is adjunct professor at the

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Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

*''Bookmarking the Oasis,'' Mumbai: Paperwall/Poetrywala, 2015, *''Writing Octopus'', New Delhi: Authorspress, 2013, *''Arriving Shortly'', Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2011, *''Seablue Child'', the Brown Critique, Kolkata, 2002.

Featured in

* ''

The Dance of the Peacock ''The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'' is a 2013 anthology of poems written by one hundred and fifty-one poets; edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha. The one hundred and fifty-one poets include Indians and diasporic Indian ...

: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'' (2013) ed. by Dr Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,

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. *"For eanne Mukuninwa, "What father left us", and "Gomati",''The Harper Collins Book of English Poetry'' (ed. udeep Sen, India, 2013, *''Another Country: An Anthology of Post-Independence Poetry in English'', (ed. rundhathi Subramaniam, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2013, *"England, 1999", "A Somewhat Different Question", and "I Wear Wordlessness like a Tattered Dress", ''Caravan'', February 2013, *"Poem Walk", ''Kavya Bharati'', 2011, No. 23 *"Drunken, Gasping Fish-lungs", "Mining", and "Slow Trot", ''Muse India'', Issue 63 *"A Brief History of Writing", and "Gravity", ''Prairie Schooner'' 87, no. 2, 2013 *"Mazhai/Rain", ''Sonic Boom'', Issue 3, 2014

Fiction

Novels

*''Table for Four'', New Delhi: Penguin, 2011,

Stories

*"You Expert Woman, You", ''Guftugu,'' May 2017 *"Mynah Hands, Flying Fingers", ''The Punch Magazine,'' April 2017 *"Rainbow Loom Bracelet", ''Out of Print'', September 2015 *"Cousin, Newly Acquired", ''Madras Mag'', October 2014 *"These Things Happen if You Don't Watch it", Volume 28, Issue 3, ''

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'', 2013 *"Game of Asylum Seekers", ''Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana'' (edited by

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and

Vandana Singh Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer and physicist. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Earth Science at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Singh also serves on the Advisory Council o ...

), Zubaan, 2012, *"Sarasu", ''the Little Magazine'', Vol. 5, Issue 4, 2004; ''First Impressions: Stories and Plays Shortlisted for the TLM New Writing Award'', 2006 (''the Little Magazine'', New Delhi, 2006), ''Other People: The Sangam House Reader Vol. I'', Sangam House 2011 *"State of Whiteness", ''The Shrinking Woman and Other Stories'', Bangalore: Unisun, 2009 *"How Do I Love Thee?: Let Me Count the Ways", ''The Penguin Book of New Writing From India 2: First Proofs'', New Delhi: Penguin, 2006

Translations

*''The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry'' (co-edited with Lakshmi Holmstrom and Subashree Krishnaswamy), New Delhi: Penguin India, 2009. *''Once There Was a Girl'' (translation of the Tamil novel ''Vattathul'' by R.Vatsala), Kolkata: Writers Workshop,2012,

Academic/Editing

*''The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History'', New Delhi: Zubaan, 2003, *''Short Fiction from South India'', (co-edited with Subashree Krishnaswamy), New Delhi: OUP, 2008,

References

Sources

Eighth National Poetry Competition 1998 - Award WinnersK Srilata - An InterviewPoems by K Srilata on ''Recours au Poeme''"Terra Nullius" on ''Recours au Poeme''"Dreaming Mostly of Nameless Things" on ''Origami Poems''"Dreaming, Mostly of Nameless Things" on YouTube"Somewhere a Skylight" on ''Origami Poems''K Srilata - Poetry at Sangam House"Boxes have that Effect" at ''Right Hand Pointing''K Srilata - Poetry International Web''Taut and Crisp'' on The Hindu Verse ReviewsPenning Verse on The HinduK Srilata - Poemhunter.com
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