Sohini Basak is a freelance editor and writer from India, currently the poetry editor at Words Without Borders. Her first poetry collection We Live in the Newness of Small Differences was awarded the inaugural International Beverly Manuscript Prize and published in 2018. She studied literature and creative writing at the universities of Delhi, Warwick, and East Anglia, where she received the 2015 Malcolm Bradbury Grant for Poetry. Other honours include a Toto Funds the Arts writing award (2017), a Vijay Nambisan Sangam House fellowship (2022) and a Speculative Literature Foundation Gulliver Travel Grant (2024).
Contributions to Humans & Nature
- “Close Your Eyes: A Reminder to Blink (Or What I Learn at Family Dinner Conversations),” an essay in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).Â
- “An Elegy with Holes (for the Insects to Come and Go),” an essay in Elementals: Air, Vol. 2 (Humans & Nature Press, 2024).Â
