Kunjana Parashar is a poet, an editor, and a poetry consultant from Mumbai. Her debut poetry book
They Gather Around Me, the Animals, selected by Diane Seuss, won the 2024 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Award. She is the recipient of the Toto Funds the Arts Award and the Deepankar Khiwani Memorial Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the Managing Editor (Poetry) at
The Bombay Literary Magazine and one of the co-founders of The Osmosis Poetry Prize. You can find out more
here.
