Born in Edinburgh in 1944, Jane Bhandari has lived in India for 50 years and is married to author and biographer Kamlesh Puri. She co-ordinated ‘Loquations’, a Mumbai poetry reading group for over ten years. She has published two volumes of poetry, Single Bed, and Aquarius. Her poems have appeared in Rattapallax, Fulcrum, The Little Magazine, 60 Indian Poets (Anthology) and We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi Anthology).  She most recently co-edited an anthology of poems for young people, To Catch A Poem (Sahitya Akademi) with Anju Makhija, published in 2014.