Anu Majumdar was born in Allahabad. Halfway through her Masters in Kolkata, an encounter with the visionary experimental town, Auroville, changed her life. Writing took a back seat as Auroville plunged her into construction work, teaching, running a food distribution unit, and training in different forms of dance. Eventually, she started the Auroville Dance Lab as a dancer-choreographer creating works like Images from the Present & Crossroads based on her poems. She also collaborated with the artist, Pierre Legrand’s “Light Matter” Installation with 108 poems. Her books include: Mobile Hour & Light Matter (Poetry); Parallel Journeys, Refugees from Paradise & God Enchanter (Fiction); Island of Infinity & Infinity Papers (YA); and Auroville: A City for the Future (Non-fiction) — which led to a TEDx. She was the poetry columnist for Arts Illustrated for three years, covering contemporary Indian poets. In 2020 she co-edited Hibiscus, a first international pandemic anthology of poetry. Her poems, short stories and articles have been published in Prairie Schooner, Scroll, The Wire, Open Magazine, The Week, The Hindu, The Punch Magazine, Arts Illustrated, Bombay Review and Verve India. Her poems have also featured in several anthologies, including the “Converse Anthology.”