Jayant Kashyap

Jayant Kashyap is an Indian poet and author of two poetry pamphlets, Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020) and Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019), and a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021). In 2021 and 2022, he was shortlisted for the Poetry Business New Poets Prize, which he won for his third pamphlet, Notes on Burials, chosen by Holly Hopkins in 2024. Kashyap earned a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Microbiology in 2023, and graduates with an M.Tech. in Biomedical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Indore in 2025. He has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, won the 2021 Young Poets Competition at the Wells Festival of Literature, and had a poem presented at the 2021 United Nations Climate Conference. His work was also chosen as featured at Wordweavers Poetry Contest 2021, and he made it to the TFA Awards for Creative Writing in English 2022 longlist with a set of twelve poems. Kashyap is a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal, and has served on the masthead at Quarterly West, Surging Tide Magazine and more, and has work published in POETRY, Magma, Arc, Denver Quarterly, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and elsewhere.