Priya Sharma

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Priya Sharma's poetry finds the extraordinary within ordinary moments—a grandmother's hands kneading dough, the precise angle of winter light, the sound of rain on tin roofs. Her collections "Ghazals for the Anthropocene" and "Small Gods" have established her as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Indian poetry. Born in Jaipur, Sharma studied literature at St. Stephen's College and completed her doctorate at Oxford on the poetry of A.K. Ramanujan. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her poems have been carved into public spaces across India as part of the Poetry Places initiative she founded.