Arundhathi Subramaniam

• Name — Arundhathi Subramaniam • Birth Name — Arundhathi • Born — 1973 • Birthplace — Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India • Education — JB Petit High School, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai • Occupation — Poet, writer • Awards — Sahitya Akademi Award

Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose. She has received the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships. Her volume of poetry When God Is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2015, and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2020. Her poetry has been published in Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets (Penguin India); Sixty Indian Poets (Penguin India), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust, India), We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi), Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (United States), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India, featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada, and Atlas: New Writing (Crossword/ Aark Arts). She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.

• Love Without a Story • When God Is a Traveller., • Where I Live: New & Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books UK, 2009. • Where I Live (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2005. • On Cleaning Bookshelves (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2001. • The Gallery of Upside Down Women. Bloodaxe Books, 2025.

• Women Who Wear Only Themselves, Speaking Tiger, 2021 • Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga (co-author with Sadhguru), Harper Element, 2017, • Sadhguru: More Than A Life, biography, Penguin Ananda, 2010 (third reprint) • The Book of Buddha, Penguin, 2005 (reprinted several times)

• Pilgrim's India (An Anthology of Essays and Poems on Sacred Journeys), Penguin, 2011 • Confronting Love (An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Love Poems) (co-edited with Jerry Pinto), Penguin, 2005 • Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry, Penguin, 2014

Arundhathi Subramaniam is recorded as having received Sahitya Akademi Award.