Jonaki Ray was educated in India (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) and the USA (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). A scientist by education and training, and a software engineer (briefly) in the past, she is now a poet, writer, and editor in New Delhi, India.  

Honours for her work include Pushcart and Forward Prize nominations, as well as the Shortlist selection in the 2021 Live Canon Chapbook Contest, among others. She also won the 2019 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award, and the First Prize in the 2017 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Contest (EAL). Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming in 2022.You can read more about her work athttps://jonakiray.com/.