Nabina Das is a poet and writer from Guwahati, Assam, and currently based in Hyderabad. Her work has been chosen as academic topics by doctoral and post-doctoral students as well as literary practitioners in India and abroad. Her latest poetry collection Anima and Narrative Limits is from Yoda Press. Her other poetry collections are Sanskarnama (Red River, 2017), Into the Migrant City (Writers Workshop, 2013), and Blue Vessel (Les Editions du Zaporogue, 2012). Her debut book is a novel Footprints in the Bajra (Cedar Books, 2010), and her short fiction volume is titled The House of Twining Roses: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped (LiFi Publications, 2014). Her first book of translations Arise out of the Lock: 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English appeared in early 2022 from Balestier Press, UK. A Rutgers-Camden MFA alumna, Nabina is the editor of WITNESS, The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent (Red River, 2021), and co-editor of 40 under 40, an Anthology of Post-globalisation Poetry (Poetrywala, 2016).
She is a 2017 Sahapedia-UNESCO fellow, a 2012 Charles Wallace Creative Writing alumna (Stirling University, Scotland), and a 2016 Commonwealth Writers features correspondent. She is a creative writing alumna of Sangam House, NYS Summer Writers Institute, and Wesleyan University Writers Conference. Her poems appear in Poetry (Poetry Foundation), Stanford University LIQ Project, Prairie Schooner, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Caravan, Poetry at Sangam, The Indian Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Dhaka Tribune, The Yellow Nib Anthology (Queens University, Belfast), Cafe Dissensus, Kitaab-Singapore, and Six Seasons Review, among several others. Nabina also writes columns and commentaries for several newspapers and journals.