Samartha Vashishtha

Samartha Vashishtha (born 1983) is a young Indian poet writing in English and Hindi, his mothertongue. He has published two volumes of poems in English--"Anhadnad", a collection of his childhood poems in 2000, and "Shadows Don't Live in Walls" in 2004. He won a "Poetry Chain-Poetry Society (India) Annual Poetry Prize" in 2003.

Samartha has also contributed to some prominent Indian literary magazines. His work in English has appeared in "Chandrabhaga" edited by Jayanta Mahapatra, Sahitya Akademi's "Indian Literature", "The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics", "The Journal of the Poetry Society (India)" and "Poetry Chain".

His poems in Hindi have appeared in Pahal, an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from Jabalpur, and Vartaman Sahitya (Ghaziabad), besides other publications.

Samartha is also a co-translator (along with Shailendra Shail) of Soumitra Mohan's long Hindi poem, Luqman Ali into English. The translation was published in Chandrabhaga 14/2007.