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Manohar Shetty

Manohar Shetty (b. Bombay) has published eight books of poems, including Domestic Creatures and Living Room. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, including London Magazine, Poetry Review and Poetry Wales for which he edited a special India number. In the US, his poems have been published in New Letters, Chelsea, Shenandoah, Atlanta Review, Rattapallax, The Baffler, Fulcrum and The Common. Several anthologies feature his work, notably The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and in anthologies edited by Eunice de Souza and Vilas Sarang. He has edited Ferry Crossing: Short Stories from Goa and Goa Travels: Being the Accounts of Travellers from the 16th to the 21st Century. He has worked in various magazines and newspapers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Goa and was editor of Goa Today for eight years. He has been a Sahitya Academy Fellow and a Homi Bhabha Fellow and has lived in Goa since 1985. His latest collection is Full Disclosure: New and Collected Poems (1981-2017), published by Speaking Tiger Books. He lives in Goa.