Arise Out Of The Lock

Nabina Das is the author of five books. Her poetry collections are Sanskarnama (Red River, 2017), Into the Migrant City (Writers Workshop, 2013), and Blue Vessel (Les Editions du Zaporogue, 2012). Nabina’s new poetry collection Anima and the Narrative Limits appeared in 2022 from Yoda Press. Her debut book is a novel titled Footprints in the Bajra (Cedar Books, 2010), and her short fiction volume is titled The House of Twining Roses: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped (LiFi Publications, 2014).

A Rutgers-Camden (US) Creative writing MFA (Poetry) alumna, and an MA in Linguistics from JNU, New Delhi, India, Nabina is the editor of WITNESS, poetry of Dissent (Red River, 2021), and co-editor of 40 under 40, an Anthology of Post-globalisation Poetry (Poetrywala, 2016). Nabina is a 2017 Sahapedia-UNESCO fellow, a 2012 Charles Wallace Creative Writing alumna (Stirling University, Scotland), and a 2016 Commonwealth Writers features correspondent. Born and brought up in Guwahati, Assam, India, she is also a 2012 Sangam House, a 2011 NYS Summer Writers Institute, and a 2007 Wesleyan Writers Conference creative writing alumna.