title: Sudeep Sen
text: # Sudeep Sen
  
  Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.
  
  ## Early life
  
  He was educated at St Columba's School in Delhi and received a degree in English literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Sen also received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University, and was an international scholar at Davidson College. From 1992 to 1993 he was international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and in 1995 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. In 1995 he set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts. He has a son named Aria.
  
  ## Works
  
  Sen's books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Rain, Aria, Postcards from Bangladesh, Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 and EroText.
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (1983)
  * The Man in the Hut (1986)
  * The Lunar Visitations (1990)
  * Kali in Ottava Rima (1992)
  * Parallel (1993)
  * New York Times (1993)
  * South African Woodcut (1994)
  * Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (1994)
  * Dali's Twisted Hands (1995)
  * Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (1997)
  * Retracing American Contours (1999)
  * A Blank Letter (2000)
  * Lines of Desire (2000)
  * Almanac (2000)
  * Perpetual Diary (2001)
  * Monsoon (2002)
  * Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent (2003)
  * Prayer Flag (2003)
  * Rain (2005)
  * Heat (2009)
  * Winter Frances (2010)
  * Mediterraneo (2012)
  * Ladakh (2012)
  * Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 (2013)
  * Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (2015)
  * Incarnat | Incarnadine (2017)
  * Path to Inspiration (2017) (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi)
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Postcards from Bangladesh (2002) (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch)
  * BodyText: Dramatic Monologues in Motion (2009)
  * EroText (2016)
  
  ### Translations
  
  * In Another Tongue (2000)
  * Love & Other Poems (2001)
  * Spellbound & Other Poems (2003)
  * Love Poems (2005)
  * Aria (2009)
  
  ### Editor, co-editor
  
  * 1995 Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia and the Diaspora. University of London.
  * 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets. Edinburgh: Lines Review.
  * 1998 Index for Censorship (poems); Songs of Partition (portfolio). London: Index for Censorship
  * 2001-18: Six Seasons Review. Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts.
  * 2001 Hayat Saif: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh.
  * 2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh. Dhaka: The British Council.
  * 2002 Dash: Four New German Writers. Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts.
  * 2002 Shawkat Haider: A Day with Destiny. Dhaka: Azeez.
  * 2004 Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India. Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings (in Macedonian).
  * 2005 Sestet: Six New Writers. Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts.
  * 2006 Biblio South Asian English Poetry (portfolio). New Delhi: Biblio.
  * 2006–present Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image. London, New York, New Delhi: Aark Arts.
  * 2009 The Literary Review. Indian Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University.
  * 2010 World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India. University of Oklahoma.
  * 2011 Poetry Review Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry. UK: Poetry Review.
  * 2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. HarperCollins.
  * 2012 The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians. Belfast: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University.
  * 2013: The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women. University of Nebraska.
  * 2015: World English Poetry. Dhaka: Bengal Foundation.
  
  ## Awards
  
  | Year | Works | Awards |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2022 | Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation | joint-winner of the US$10,000 Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize for 20221-22 |
  | 2018 | Postcards from Bangladesh | UPL Excellence Award |
  | 2017 | EroText | Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence |
  | 2017 | EroText | Best Book of the Year |
  | 2009 | Aria | AK Ramanujan Translation Award |
  | 2009 | Blue Nude | Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award |
  | 2007 | Kathak Literary Award |
  | 2004 | Pleiades Honour </ref> |
  