Sohini Basak is a writer of fiction, poetry, and the in-between. She is also currently the poetry editor at Words Without Borders. Her first poetry collection We Live in the Newness of Small Differences was awarded the inaugural International Beverly Manuscript Prize and published in the UK in 2018. She studied literature and creative writing at the universities of Delhi, Warwick, and East Anglia, where she received the 2015 Malcolm Bradbury Grant for Poetry. Other honours include a Toto Funds the Arts writing award (2017), a Vijay Nambisan Sangam House fellowship (2022) and a Speculative Literature Foundation Gulliver Travel Grant (2024).