I have been writing for more than four decades now. A retired Professor of English at Indian Institute of Technology--ISM, Dhanbad, India, I have authored over 160 academic articles, 170 book reviews, and 48 books. My recent collections of poems include   I Am No Jesus And Other Selected Poems, Tanka and Haiku (English/Crimean Tatar, Romania, 2014), You Can’t Scent Me and Other Selected Poems(New Delhi, 2016), God Too Awaits Light(California, 2017), Growing Within - Desavarsire launtrica: haiku, tanka and other poems (English/Romanian; Constanta, Romania, 2018), There’s No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (Mauritius, 2019),  Tainted with Prayers: Contaminado con Oraciones (English/Spanish; Colombia, 2019), and Silencio: Blanca desconfianza: Silence: White distrust (Spanish edition, ed & tr by Joseph Berolo, Colombia, 2021).

Widely published and anthologized, and appreciated for my tanka and haiku,my poems have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Greek, Italian, German, French, Irish, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Romanian, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Bosnian, Hungarian, Croatian, Albanian, Farsi, Arabic, Serbian, Esperanto, Dzonkha, Nepali, Hindi, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Bangla.

My awards and honors include Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999, Certificate of Honor and Nyuusen Prize, Kumamoto, 2000 and 2008, Life time Achievement Award of the International Poets Academy, Chennai, 2009, Prize of Corea Literature, South Korea, 2013, Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize, Lebanon, 2015, nomination for Pushcart Prize, 2013, 2014, and Certificate of Appreciation, Gujarat Sahitya Academy & Motivational Strips, 2020.

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I have been a digital non-fiction writer for as long as I can remember now, and I have recently made the switch into fiction. As a relatively young fiction writer with borderline unrealistic aspirations which my ambition would never allow me to consider unrealistic (crazy delusional thing, ambition), I'm looking to meet other writers in different milestones of their writer journeys and learn as much as I can from their stories and the paths they've treaded on. Apart from being new to the world of fiction I'm also new to this crazy concrete jungle of a city and I would love to socialise with writers from all walks of life in any way, shape or form this pandemic allows us to. 

I am an older woman (77) who has been writing and publishing fiction for 40 years. Most of my publications have been erotica, but I also have published and written li.terary short stories My three novels remain unpublished. I' ve recently become interested in writing memoir. I had a memoir published in EclecticaMagazine (www.eclecticamagazine.org), July/August 2020. I am currently rewriting a novel and working on some short memoir pieces, as well as short fiction. I was in an online writing group for 20 years, but the other members have decided to move on to other things. I still find feedback on my writing to be helpful, so would like to form or find another group of accomplished writers. This could be in person, online, or via zoom. 

One of my current projects is called the "Eulogy Project" whereby I encourage friends to write about friends and loved ones NOW rather than waiting until they  pass away.   After all, who needs to hear nice things when you're already six feet under?

I'm a life-long writer and a life-long student. I am interested in working with other writers to improve my craft, support their craft/s, cross the borders, swim for the farthest shore.

Work Synopsis: I've published poems in several anthologies, zines and online sites, and have written chapbooks, The Character Poems (Chez Ches, no longer available) and "Bliss, Not Weight," the latter of which is published in Ides, an anthology of 15 chapbooks published by Silver Birch Press. I've also written seven plays, two of which have been produced either in Los Angeles or New York as full stage productions or in festival readings (You Told Me That the Carousel Was Crystal, Inside, ...and Then the Heavens Closed, Noah's Arc). I've also written, produced and performed four solo theatre works. I'm currently finalizing my newest play and a full-length poetry collection.