Arundhathi Subramaniam(2022)

Described as "one of the finest poets writing in India today" (The Hindu, 2010) and "a unique poet of our times...in a league all by herself" (Indian Literature, 2020), Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and writer on spirituality. Her 13 books of poetry and prose include the recent poetry volume, Love Without a Story, and a book of conversations with female sacred travelers, Women Who Wear Only Themselves. Subramaniam's other works include the well-loved anthology of sacred poetry, Eating God, and the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life. She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize, Raza Award, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships, among others. Her book When God is a Traveller, was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.