Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal was born in the Himalayan town of Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit, Banshee, Cyphers, Gutter, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, Rattle, The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. In 2018, she was one of the twelve poets selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series. Supriya is the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent.

 

She is the author of The Yak Dilemma, published by Makina Books (London). 

 

Bitter Almonds, Supriya's upcoming pamphlet of plague poems is forthcoming in a limited-edition boxed anthology by Salvage Press (Dublin).

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Photo by Robin Silas Christian