Sarabjeet Garcha

Sarabjeet Garcha is a poet and translator. He is the author of four books of poems—including A Clock in the Far Past—besides a volume each of translated poetry and translated prose. He has translated several American poets into Hindi, including W.S. Merwin and John Haines, and several Indian poets into English, among them Mangalesh Dabral and Leeladhar Jagoori. He has also translated more than fifteen Marathi poets into both Hindi and English. He was on the Panel of Critical Readers for the third edition of Garner’s Modern American Usage (Oxford University Press, 2009). Widely anthologized, his poems, translations and essays have appeared in Lyrikline, Versopolis, Words Without Borders, Modern Poetry in Translation, the Indian Quarterly, Domus India, Scroll, the Wire, Right Hand Pointing, Indian Literature, and several other online and print journals. His poems have been translated into German, Spanish, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi and Hindi. Sarabjeet received a fellowship in 2013–14 from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and is the founder and editorial director of Copper Coin, a multilingual publishing company.