Author of four books of poetry, – Two Full Moons (Bombaykala Books), Words Not Spoken (Brown Critique), The Longest Pleasure (Finishing Line Press) and The Silk of Hunger (AuthorsPress), Vinita is an award-winning poet, editor, translator and curator. She is based in Indore, India. Joint Recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and winner of the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015. She is Poetry Editor with Usawa Literary Review. She edited an anthology on climate change titled Open Your Eyes (Hawakal) in 2020. She also edited a Memoir-Anthology on the Kashmiri poet Ghulam Rasool Nazki in 2021 (Ink Links). Most recently she co-edited the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020-21 (Hawakal). She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize. She is also on the Global Judging Panel of the SheInsprawrds. www.vinitawords.com