biography
[www.sudeepsen.net] read English Literature at the University of Delhi & as
an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from the Journalism School at Columbia
University (New York). His awards, fellowships & residencies include:
Hawthornden Fellowship (UK), Pushcart Prize nomination (USA), BreadLoaf (USA),
Pleiades (Macedonia), nlpvf Dutch Foundation for Literature (Amsterdam), Ledig
House (New York), and Sanskriti (New Delhi). He was international
writer-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh) & visiting
scholar at Harvard University. Sen’s dozen books include: Postmarked India:
New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies,
Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), and Blue Nude: Poems & Translations 1977-2012 (Jorge Zalamea
International Poetry Award) is forthcoming. He has also edited
several important anthologies, including: The
HarperCollins Book of New English Poetry by Indians (forthcoming), The Literary Review Indian Poetry,
Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India, and
others. His poems, translated into
over twenty-five languages, have featured in international anthologies by
Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Norton, Knopf, Everyman, Random
House, Macmillan, and Granta. His poetry and literary prose have appeared in
the Times Literary Supplement, Guardian,
Observer, Independent, Financial Times, London Magazine, Literary Review,
Harvard Review, Telegraph, Hindu, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on
bbc, cnn-ibn, ndtv & air. Sen’s recent work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta) and Language
for a New Century (Norton). He is the editorial director of Aark Arts and
editor of Atlas [www.atlasaarkarts.net].
