Described as “one of the finest poets writing in India today” (The Hindu, 2010), Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of twelve books of poetry and prose. Widely translated and anthologised, her most recent volume of poems, Love Without a Story (published in 2019 by Westland Amazon in India, and just out internationally with Bloodaxe Books), has been described as “a breathtaking and heartwarming book” (Poetry Book Society Bulletin) and as a book by “a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself” (Indian Literature).

Her previous book, When God is a Traveller, was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.  Arundhathi is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Zee Indian Women Award for Literature, the Mystic Kalinga award, among others. She has written extensively on culture and spirituality, and has worked over the years as poetry editor, cultural curator and critic. She has been the founding editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web, an online journal that has grown over the years into a significant archive of Indian poetry.

As prose writer, her books include the bestselling Penguin biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life and The Book of Buddha. As editor, her most recent book is the Penguin anthology of Bhakti poetry, Eating God.