Aditi Rao

Aditi Rao is the author of two full length books of poetry, The Fingers Remember (Yoda Press, 2014) and A Kind of Freedom Song (Yoda Press, 2019). Her essays and poems have been published widely, including in Eclectica, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Four Quarters Magazine, The Feminist Wire, the Indian Quarterly, Qarrtsiluni, The Black Rabbit Review, InfochangeIndia, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, the Earth Charter Initiative, The Hindu Business Line, The Ken, and The Morning Context. Aditi’s work has also received national and international recognition through awards and fellowships, including the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Hedgebrook Residency, the Sangam House International Writers’ Residency, the Srinivas Rayaprol Prize for Poetry, the TFA Creative Writing in English award, the Muse India – Satish Verma Young Writer Award, and others. Aditi has a Masters’ of Fine Arts in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a Bachelors’ in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America. She has been teaching Creative Writing and Research Writing, one-on-one and in group settings, since 2005. Aditi currently lives in New Delhi and Shimla with her mother, cat, and dog.