Aditi Rao
Aditi Rao is the author of two full-length poetry collections, and winner of several awards and fellowships, including the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship, the TFA Creative Writing Award, the Sangam House Residency, the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize, and the Muse India Young Writer Award. She has been teaching creative and expository writing, one-on-one as well as in group and classroom settings, since 2005. Aditi’s poetry has appeared in Eclectica, Black Rabbit Review, Muse India, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Feminist Wire, and other publications, and her essays have been featured in People Building Peace 2.0 (published by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict), Moments that Speak: Images and Stories of Connection (published by the Earth Charter Initiative). Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Fingers Remember was published in 2015, and her second collection, A Kind Of Freedom Song, was released in March 2019.