Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading  Indian poet and author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2015, she is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Il Ceppo Award in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, and the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships, among others. Widely translated and anthologized, her most recent works include Women Who Wear Only Themselves a book of conversations with female spiritual travellers; and a book of poetry, Love Without a Story.