Mani Rao is the author of nine poetry books and two books in translation, Kalidasa for the 21st Century (Aleph, 2014) and Bhagavad Gita (Fingerprint India, 2015). Her poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Her latest collection is New & Selected Poems (Poetrywala, 2015), which includes her selected poetry from the last three decades of publication.