Cirrus@Austlit

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Pooja Mittal Biswas later lived in India and New Zealand: her first book, Musings, was published when she was 13, and she followed it with Diaries of a Marked Man and Musings on Poetry, both published when she was 21 (and still based in New Zealand). After she moved to Australia, she published the collection Subliminal Dust.

Pooja Biswas's work been reviewed and interviewed in The Age, The Australian and ABC Radio National’s The Book Show, and anthologised in The Best Australian Poems and The Best Australian Poetry, as well as published in literary journals such as Meanjin, Hecate and Jacket. Additionally, She was selected as the national representative for UNESCO’s Babele Poetica project.

After completing a Master of Research in Creative Writing at Macquarie University under a Research Excellence Scholarship (2019) (and publishing scholarly work in journals such as Anglia and The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics), she undertook a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Sydney, where she is also a LINK Critical Fellow and a sessional academic teaching Creative Writing; she was working under the supervision of Beth Yahp.