Amit Shankar Saha is a widely-published award-winning poet and short story writer. He has won the Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature, Wordweavers Prize (both for poetry and short story), Nissim International Runner-up Prize for Poetry, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize. His works have been included in Best Indian Poetry 2018 anthology. His poetry collections include Balconies of Time and Fugitive Words. He has co-edited a collection of short stories titled Dynami Zois. Saha teaches in the English Department of Seacom Skills University. He is the co-founder of Rhythm Divine Poets. You can follow him on his website or on Instagram: @amitshankarsaha.
Four poems by Amit Shankar Saha: ‘The city awakes / / from the depths of sleep / and beyond the walls / their minds are released / from quarantine.