Sufia Khatoon is a multi-lingual performance poet, artist, facilitator and mentor. She is the Co-Founder of Rhythm Divine Poets community, Kolkata, and the Editor of EKL Review. She was nominated as one of the 100 Inspiring Indian Muslim Women from West Bengal by RBTC. She has authored Death in the Holy Month, which was shortlisted for the Yuva Puraskar Award by the Sahitya Akademi in 2020 and 22, and Ger-mi-na-tion (Longlisted Attaglata Bangalore Literature Prize 2022). She has been awarded with Suprabha and Santiranjan Sengupta IPPL Poetry Book Award 2023 and is also the recipient of the Amio Santa Award 2017 for her philanthropic initiatives. You can find her on Instagram: @sufiamystic and Twitter: @SufiaKhatoon.
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‘Your book felt like the scent of passing months, layered with flowers, rain, spring and autumn—a scent that reached into the city’s deep burrows.’ By Sufia Khatoon