Ankit Raj Ojha is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana. A former engineer and rock band frontman from Chhapra, Bihar, he has a PhD in literature from IIT Roorkee. He is the author of Pinpricks (Hawakal, 2022), and is winner of the Briefly Think Essay Prize 2023. His writings are published/forthcoming in twelve countries, including Poetry Wales, Routledge, Johns Hopkins University Press, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Outlook India, Dreich etc. Ankit edits The Hooghly Review, is guest editor at Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (Bingöl University, Turkey), and is a consulting editor with Routledge. You can find him on Twitter: @ankit_raj01 and Instagram: @ankitrajojha1.