Medha Singh is an award-winning poet, translator and editor. Her writing is published internationally, widely anthologised, and translated into French, Spanish and Hindi.

As winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Poetry in 2024, Singh was awarded a £2000 bursary for the completion of a new work. Her latest collection, Afterbody, is due to be released in May by Blue Diode (Edinburgh).

Singh has published a work of translation I Will Bring My Time: Love Letters by S.H. Raza (Vadehra Art Gallery, 2020), a collection of love letters translated from the French, penned by Indian modernist painter Sayed Haider Raza during his time in France, and her poems appear in Ecdysis (Paperwall, 2017).

Singh won the wRICe fellowship in 2020 (Australia, RMIT University) and was long-listed for the Toto Funds the Arts Awards (India) in 2019 and 2020. She took her MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh.

poetry

Publications of her poetry can be found in some of the UK and India's leading contemporary magazines: Firmament, Almost Island, Hotel, Berfrois, Interpret, The Robert Graves Review, Bad Lilies, Outcrop, 3:AM, Indian Quarterly, Indian Cultural Forum, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Poetry at Sangam, Cordite, and Kitaab, among others.

Her writing has been anthologized in Singing in the Dark (Penguin, 2020), Gollancz Book of South Asian SF, volume II (Hachette, 2021), Modern Indian Poetry by Younger Indians  (Sahitya Akademi, 2020), Best Indian Poetry 2018 (RLFPA editions), Divining Dante (Recent Work Press, 2021), Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing (Red Hen Press, 2022), Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Penguin Random House, 2022), and The Best Asian Poetry (Kitaab, 2022)
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interviews

Her interviews have appeared on the websites of The Pablo Neruda Foundation - Chile, NERObooks - Boston, POV - Denmark, Queen Mob's Teahouse - London, and JCAM - Massachusettes among others. 

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