
about
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 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.


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