Samartha Vashishtha

Samartha Vashishtha (Hindi: समर्थ वाशिष्ठ | born June 10, 1983) is an Indian poet writing in English and Hindi, his mothertongue. He has published three volumes of poems; two in English — ''Anhadnad'', a collection of his childhood poems in the year 2000 and ''Shadows Don't Live in Walls'' in 2004 — and a book of poems in Hindi titled ''Sapne Mein Piya Pani'' (Hindi: सपने में पिया पानी, Rajkamal Prakashan, 2017). He won a ''Poetry Chain-Poetry Society (India) Annual Poetry Prize'' in 2003 for his poem-sequence, ''Simla''.

Samartha has also contributed extensively to prominent Indian literary journals. His work in English has appeared in ''Chandrabhaga'' edited by Jayanta Mahapatra, Sahitya Akademi's ''Indian Literature'', ''The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics'', ''The Journal of the Poetry Society (India)'' and ''Poetry Chain''. His poems in Hindi have appeared in Pahal, an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from Jabalpur, ''Naya Gyanodaya, Vartaman Sahitya'' (Ghaziabad), and Sahitya Akademi's ''Samakaleen Bharatiya Sahitya'' besides several other publications. Provided by Wikipedia