Samartha
Vashishtha was born June 10, 1983 at Nabha (Punjab).
He published
a first book of poems in English, Anhadnad, in the year
2000.
A second titled Shadows Don't Live In Walls was published
in
2004 by Writers Workshop, Kolkata. His poems have appeared in
some
leading literary journals like Chandrabhaga (Cuttack),
The Journal
of the Poetry Society (India) (New
Delhi), Indian Literature (New Delhi),
The Poetry Chain
(Mumbai), and The Journal of Literature and
Aesthetics
(Kerala). Besides, he translates to and from the Hindi
and
the Punjabi and has published translations of his poems in the leading
Hindi
journals Pahal and Vartaman Sahitya, besides some daily publications.
Samartha
has also trained in Classical Vocal Music for many years. Email
: [email protected]
He won
the Chosen Poet - II award in The Poetry Society (India) -
Poetry Chain Annual Poetry Prizes 2003. An engineer by
education,
he currently works as a Technical Writer with Adobe Systems.
In the past, he has served as the Editorial Coordinator of LINUX For You,
a magazine focused on Linux and open source software.
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