Sweta Srivastava Vikram

Sweta Srivastava Vikram (www.swetavikram.com) is an award-winning poet, writer, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, educator, and blogger.
Born in India, Sweta spent her formative years between India, North Africa, and the United States. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry
("Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors," "Because All is Not Lost," and "Beyond the Scent of Sorrow") two collaborative collections of poetry
("Not All Birds Sing" and "Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi"), a novel ("Perfectly Untraditional"), a nonfiction book of prose and poems
("Mouth full" upcoming in 2012), and a full-length collection of poems ("No Ocean Here" upcoming in 2013). Her work has also appeared in
several anthologies, literary journals, and online publications across six countries in three continents.
Sweta has won two Pushcart Prize
nominations, an International Poetry Award, Best of the Net Nomination, Nomination for Asian American Members' Choice Awards 2011, and
writing fellowships. She has been selected by the Queens Council on the Arts as a participant for the 2012 Build Your Own Business for
Writers Program and was short listed for the Independent Literary Awards. Taj Mahal Review describes her as "A poet with hauntingly beautiful
talent." Sweta has held several artist residencies in Europe and America and worked on collaborative projects with artists from Zimbabwe
and Australia. A graduate of Columbia University, she reads her work, teaches creative writing workshops, and gives talks at universities
and schools across the globe. Sweta lives in New York City with her husband. You can follow her on Twitter (@ssvik) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Words.By.Sweta).