Bina Sarkar Ellias is a poet, founder-editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, an award-winning global arts and ideas journal encouraging understanding of cultural diversity since 21 years. She is also an art curator and fiction writer. Her book of poems Fuse has a Chinese edition and selected poems have been translated into Arabic, Urdu and French. Fuse has been taught at the Towson University, Maryland, USA. Her recently launched book, When Seeing Is Believing, is a selection of poems responding to art and photographic images. She received a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program, 2007, the Times Group Yami Women Achievers’ Award, 2008, and the FICCI/FLO, India 2013 Award for Excellence in her work.