Sohini Basak grew up in Barrackpore, India. She studied literature and creative writing at the universities of Delhi, Warwick, and East Anglia, where she was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant for Poetry. Currently, she lives in Delhi, making up stories set around a hospital for plants.

Books by Sohini Basak:

Other poems on the web by Sohini Basak:
Two poems
"laconic"
"Other Small Disasters"
"The Need to Travel"
Four poems
"the tree. which tree?"

Sohini Basak's Website.

Sohini Basak on Twitter.

About We Live in the Newness of Small Differences:

"This book teems with the furious and thoughtful tenderness of a generation of promising younger poets for whom self-reflexivity and ecological consciousness, small and large, are part of the same shuttlings of thought. Thought weaves a self and the self passes into language where refrains and spaces, hints and insistence, structure the page as much as whatever is told: ant alphabets, saiga antelopes, time and objects. Literary, formal and folkloric inheritance ranges across languages that have been mutually translatable in life but are only now coming together to smash and perhaps not re-create the canon."
—Vahni Capildeo

"Reading these poems feels as it feels to watch birds soar, fish swim. They are intuitive yet muscled as they negotiate the back and forth of violence and grace required in this contemporary moment. It's a cliche to herald the arrival of a new voice. And yet here is Sohini Basak with this book that is fully mature, expansive, formal and yet surprising, everything one wants from lyric."
—Juliana Spahr