Bio
Shobhana’s book of haibun, A Sky Full of Bucket Lists, (Red River in 2021), is the recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-2022, and The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award, 2021, Honourable Mention, instituted by The Haiku Foundation, USA. She has two books of poetry published by Writers Workshop. She is a memoirist, biographer and chronicler of regional histories and people with eight published works.
K. Srilata and Shobhana Kumar’s work, I, Salma, Translated Poems, (Red River, 2023) is the first collected poems of Salma in English. Work in progress also includes a collaborative translation project with Priya Sarukkai Chabria on Manickavacagar’s Thiruvasagam.
Shobhana is founder of Small Differences, an NGO that works with the elderly homeless, transgender community and vulnerable women and children. She also works in the spaces of education and branding.