Sohini Basak is a writer of fiction, poetry, and the in-between. Her first poetry collection We Live in the Newness of Small Differences was awarded the inaugural International Beverly Manuscript Prize and published in the UK in2018. Other prizes and honours include the Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellowship at the University of Kent (2016), a Desperate Literature Short Fiction shortlist (2025), a Speculative Literature Foundation Gulliver Travel Grant (2024), a Vijay Nambisan Sangam House fellowship (2022), a Toto Funds the Arts writing award (2017), and a Malcolm Bradbury Grant for Poetry (2015). She is working on her first novel and currently serves as the poetry editor at Words Without Borders. Website: sohinibasak.com
