Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of two books of poetry: On Cleaning Bookshelves (Allied, 2001) and Where I Live (Allied, 2005). She has also co-edited Confronting Love (Penguin, 2005), an anthology of contemporary Indian love poems in English, and written The Book of Buddha (Penguin India, 2005). She lives in Mumbai.  

Her poetry has been published in several national and international journals and anthologies, and translated into Hindi, Tamil, Italian and Spanish. She was awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship for a writing residency at the University of Stirling, Scotland, in 2003, and a Visiting Arts fellowship to tour the UK on a series of poetry readings, organised by the Poetry Society, in 2006. She has done readings of her work in India and at international poetry festivals in Italy, Spain, Holland and the UK. She has since 2004 been the National Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.

Active in arts management for several years, she was in charge of Chauraha (an interactive arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, from 1994 to 2007. She writes for various publications on the performing arts, literature, travel and spirituality.