Vinita Agrawal

She is on the advisory board of the Tagore Literary Prize. She is a poetry editor with Usawa Literary Review.

• Name — Vinita Agrawal • Born — 18 August 1965 • Birthplace — Bikaner, Rajasthan, India • Occupation — poet, editor and curator • Language — English • Nationality — Indian • Notable Works — The Silk of Hunger

Vinita Agrawal was born on 18 August 1965 in Bikaner. She completed her schooling in Anand (Gujarat), Kalimpong, and Kolkata in West Bengal. Later she completed her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in political science from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and a diploma in computer programming from Aptech.

Her poems were published in Asiancha, Constellations, The Fox Chase Review, Pea River Journal, Open Road Review, Stockholm Literary Review, Poetry Pacific and other journals. She served as the poetry editor of Usawa Literary Review. She was influenced by the works of Jayanta Mahapatra, Pablo Neruda and Rumi. She writes poems with themes and subjects like existential angst and women's empowerment. She is an author of four books of poetry: Two Full Moons, Words Not Spoken, The Longest Pleasure and The Silk Of Hunger. Two Full Moons explores subjects including birth, death, existence, family, soul and heart. In 2020, she edited anthology entitled Open your Eyes: An Anthology on Climate Change. It features poetry and prose written by 63 Indian writers. It investigates human relationships with the natural world. She co-edited Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, 2020-21 with Sukrita Paul Kumar.