Abha Iyengar

Abha Iyengar is an award-winning, internationally published poet, author, essayist, and British-Council-certified creative-writing mentor.

Her books include “Yearnings,” “Shrayan,” “Flash Bites,” “Many Fish to Fry,” “The Gourd Seller and Other Stories,” “The Tattoo At Her Throat”, “The Orange Straw Murders, and "Daddy's Chair” She has co-edited an anthology, “The Other.” Her work has also appeared in Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Cha-An Asian Literary Journal, Khabar, Kitaab, Litro India and others. She is the founder of Creative Wings Studio.

Her story “The High Stool” was nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology contest winner, was featured Poet at Poetry with Prakriti, 2010, and received the Lavanya Sankaran Writing Fellowship for 2009-2010. She was a finalist at Flash Mob 2013, an international event. Her flash fiction has appeared in Vestal Review, Jellyfish Review, Flash Frontier, Blink Noir, Pure Slush, Brilliant Flash Fiction and others. Short stories have also appeared in The Best Asian Speculative Fiction and the Best Asian Crime Fiction anthologies, and poems have appeared in The Kali Project, and will appear in Poetry of Dissent from the Margins and in The Shape of a Poem anthologies. She was recently long-listed for the Kamala Das Poetry Award by WE-India. Her poem-film, “Parwaaz” (“Flight”), won a Special Jury prize in Patras, Greece.