Shanta Acharya
Shanta Acharya, born and educated in Cuttack, India, won a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College. She was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for her work on Ralph Waldo Emerson. The author of twelve books, her poems, articles and reviews feature in publications worldwide. Her latest books are What Survives Is The Singing (Indigo Dreams Publishing, UK; 2020) and Imagine: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, India; 2017).