Teji Sethi

A nutritionist by profession, Teji Sethi transitioned from micronutrients to micro poetry.

She now loves concocting a mix of emotions through her short verses. A poet at heart, she’s

charmed by the beauty and musicality in nature.

Teji’s bilingual poems in free-verse, haikai verse, and works of art have found a home in

numerous national and international venues — The Kolkata Review, Under the Basho,

Drifting Sands, Moonbathing Journal, Femku Mag, Humankind Journal, Cold Moon

Journal, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, Cattails, Ribbons – a Journal by Tanka Society

of America, to name but a few. In addition, her haiku and senryu have won accolades and

honorable mentions in Indian and International haiku contests.

Teji’s debut collection of Hindi poems, Cotton Blooms— Kapaas Ke Phool, was published in

2019, with The Partition Museum of India awarding one of its creations. The literary piece

was later translated into Punjabi and broadcasted over Radio Pakistan, Lahore. Her first

haikai chapbook, Uncharted Roads, and a bi-lingual anthology of poems titled I am not

enough to Know as an editor were released in January 2021. Her first collection of haikai

pieces titled, Moss Laden Walls is just out in print. She is one of the poets featured in the

coveted Year Book of Indian Poetry in English 2020-21. She is the founder and curator of a

bilingual journal of haiku, tanka and micro poems - Triya.

While most of her poems are a mélange of her experiences, the subject close to her heart is

the narratives of the India-Pakistan Partition. Teji currently resides in Bangalore and

freelances in creative writing.