Pooja Mittal Biswas Pooja Mittal Biswas i(19268422 works by)
Also writes as: Pooja Mittal
Born: Established: 1983 Lagos,
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Nigeria,
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West / Central Africa, Africa,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

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.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Individuals and groups ($30,000)

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Hunger and Predation Castlemaine : Cordite Press , 2023 25742463 2023 selected work poetry

'Eh? You want bodies, blood, sex, gore, damning gods, raw uppercuts?

'Why, yes. Pooja Mittal Biswas welcomes you into the ring of identity and the hunt for an honest and rapier self.

'Glove up.' (Publication summary) 

2024 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards John Bray Award for Poetry
2024 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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