Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Author & Editor

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of India's finest English language poets, and an acclaimed translator. He is the author of seven previous books of poetry and two collections of essays, Partial Recall (2012) and Translating the Indian Past (2019), the author-translator of Songs of Kabir (2011), and the editor of the Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992), A History of Indian Literature in English (2003), Collected Poems in English by Arun Kolatkar (2010), and The Book of Indian Essays: Two Hundred Years of English Prose (2020). He was raised in Allahabad and now lives in Dehra Dun, in the foothills of the Himalayas.