Lahari Mahalanabish

Lahari Mahalanabish (Chatterji)’s short fiction/poems had been short/long listed for the international awards: Grindstone Short Story Prize 2020, Mslexia Poetry Prize 2021, Erbacce Poetry Prize 2009 and 2010, and Eyelands Book Awards 2019 and 2020. Her short stories were published in the anthologies 2020 Grindstone Anthology, Where the Kingfisher Sings (2021) and Moolah (2021); prose pieces in Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within and But You Don’t Look Sick. Her poems have found places in anthologies such as Yellow Chair Review 2015 Anthology, Freedom Raga (2020), The Kali Project (2021), The Ocean Waves (2021), New Normal (2021), and Van Voice: Forests and Their People (2021). Her collection of poems entitled One Hundred Poems was published by Writers Workshop, India (2007).

A software engineer by profession, she blogs (http://theserpentacursedrhyme.blogspot.com) to chronicle her travels and highlight the work carried out by a rural empowerment initiative she is associated with.