Alolika Dutta is a poet based in Bombay. Her work has appeared in The Indian Quarterly, The Boston Globe, Indian Cultural Forum, Scroll, Madras Courier, Nether Quarterly, Lumin, and Guftugu, among others, and is forthcoming in The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing, and Aainanagar, a bilingual (English and Bangla) journal.