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Medha Singh is a poet, editor and translator. She is a TEDx speaker, and winner of the New Writers Award ‘23. Her work can be found in various journals across India, the US and the UK. Her work has been included in anthologies out through Hachette, Harper Collins, Penguin, Simon and Schuster, Red Hen Press and Recent Work Press. Singh has read at various venues across India and the UK including Hidden Door, the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, King's College, the Scottish Poetry Library, the Sahitya Academy, Bangalore Poetry Festival and PEN India. She is editor-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, Boston. Her debut collection Afterbody is out through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh.

poetry

Publications of her poetry can be found in some of the UK and India's leading contemporary magazines: Dark Horse, Irish Pages, Firmament, Wet Grain, StillPoint, Almost IslandHotelBerfroisInterpret, The Robert Graves Review, Bad Lilies, Outcrop, 3:AM, Indian Quarterly, Indian Cultural ForumThe 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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medha singh

writer, editor, translator

Email medhawrites@proton.me
Address
 edinburgh, united kingdom

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education

2021 - 2022

University of Edinburgh
MSc Creative Writing (Distinction)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2015 - 2016

Sciences Po, Paris

Paris School of International Affairs

Exchange Program

 

2014 - 2016

Jawaharlal Nehru University
M.A. English (First Class)
New Delhi, India

Get a copy of Afterbody here.

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