Akhila Mohan CG

Akhila Mohan CG is an award-winning poet and writer. She writes free verse and haiku poetry, essays, short stories, and research articles. She is also a research scholar pursuing her PhD in the trauma of exile from MATS University, Chhattisgarh, and the co-founder of a creative firm, ArtLit: An Art & Literary Community. More than 50 of her creative write-ups have been published in national and international literary journals, anthologies, and platforms, including Unstamatic, TMYS Review, Scarlet Dragonfly, Whiptail Journal, Failed Haiku, Juggernaut, Readomania, YKA, and others. Tamarind: Sweet and Sour Poems about Love, Loss, Longing, and Life, published by Kitaab, Singapore, is her debut poetry collection. She was shortlisted for the Orange Flowers Awards in the Poetry category organized by Women’s Web and is the recipient of the P.B. Shelley – Youth’s Unextinguished Fire International Poetry Award (2021) by Sarojini Naidu Vanita Maha Vidyalaya, Hyderabad. She participated as a panellist at the New Delhi World Book Fair 2023 for the session ‘Who Needs a Poem?’ at the author’s Corner on February 28.