Aryanil Mukherjee
Aryanil Mukherjee is a poet, translator and editor. He writes in both Bangla (Bengali) and English. He has authored four books of poetry and a book of hybrid essays. Aryanil is widely published in both Indian (Bengali) and American poetry journals. He is also a poetry-columnist who writes regularly in both electronic and print media. He was awarded the Kabita Pakkhik Samman (Poetry Fortnightly Honor) for 2007. His English work has appeared in Znine, Maverick, Rain Taxi, Moria Poetry, Helix Magazine, Jacket Magazine etc. and forthcoming in Black Roberts and Drunken Boat. Aryanil has translated numerous international poets bidirectionally between English and Bangla including Francis Ponge, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, Chairil Anwar, Peter Gizzi, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Pierre Alferi, Sami Baydar and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha to name a few. He edits KAURAB (http://www.kaurab.com), a celebrated Bangla literary magazine published since 1970. Aryanil works as an engineering mathematician and lives in Cincinnati, USA.