Menka Shivdasani

Menka Shivdasani's first book of poems, Nirvana at Ten Rupees, was published by Adil Jussawalla under the Praxis imprint in 1990. Her second collection, Stet, first appeared in 2001, and her third collection, Safe House, was published recently by Paperwall. Menka is the co-translator of Freedom and Fissures, an anthology of Sindhi Partition poetry, published by Sahitya Akademi in 1998, and editor of If the Roof Leaks, Let it Leak, an anthology of women's writing. She has edited two online anthologies of contemporary Indian poetry. Menka's poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies worldwide, and she is a founder member of the Mumbai Poetry Circle.