Menka Shivdasani

Menka Shivdasani is an award-winning poet, editor, and translator. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Seven Queens: Sindhi Folktales Retold in English Verse (2024); co-translator of Freedom and Fissures, an anthology of Sindhi Partition poetry (1998); editor of a SPARROW anthology of women’s writing (2014); and editor of The Big Bridge Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry (2024). She co-founded Poetry Circle in Bombay in 1986 and has organised poetry festivals for the global movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change since 2011. She is the Co-Chair of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT).