Akhil Katyal

Akhil Katyal is a writer, translator and scholar. He has published three books of poems: Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems (2020), How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross (2018) and Night Charge Extra (2015). He was a 2016 International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa International Writing Program and was awarded the Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellowship in 2021. He translated Ravish Kumar?s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love (2018). In 2020, he co-edited The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia. His work has appeared in several pivotal anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets edited by Jeet Thayil.