Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and literary translator, born in 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, Bad Lilies, Banshee, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, Rattle, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. In 2018, she was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series.

 

Supriya was the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. She was awarded the fellowship to develop a series of poems tethered to the life and work of Norah Richards, the Irish theatre practitioner who called the erstwhile Punjab and the Dhauladhars her home.

 

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

 

Supriya is currently based in Manchester, where she is working towards a practice-based PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Place Writing. Her research explores reservoirs as engineered ecologies shaped by memories of displacement, control, and transformation.

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