Srividya Sivakumar is a poet, columnist, and TEDx speaker. She has two books of poetry, The Blue Note and The Heart is an Attic and is the co-editor of The Shape of a Poem, the Red River Anthology of Contemporary Erotic Poetry (2021). Her column, Srividya Speaks Poetry, currently appears in the online literary journal, Narrow Road. Sivakumar was shortlisted for the WE Kamala Das Poetry Awards 2020. She is on Instagram: @rumwrapt.
Poems by Srividya Sivakumar: ‘In my seditious soul, sparrows flit in and out of red-tiled houses. A dry river watches my family offer prayers. A kitten scares my aunt senseless.’