Name Samartha Vashishtha | Role Poet | |
Samartha Vashishtha (born 1983) is an Indian poet writing in English and Hindi, his mothertongue. He has published two volumes of poems in English--Anhadnad, a collection of his childhood poems in 2000, and Shadows Don't Live in Walls in 2004. In 2017, Rajkamal Prakashan, the leading publisher of literature in Hindi, released his book of poems, Sapne Mein Piyaa Panee (सपने में पिया पानी). He won a Poetry Chain-Poetry Society (India) Annual Poetry Prize in 2003 for his poem-sequence, Simla.
Samartha has also contributed to prominent Indian literary journals. His work in English has appeared in Chandrabhaga edited by Jayanta Mahapatra, Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature, The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India) and Poetry Chain.
His poems in Hindi have appeared in Pahal, an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from Jabalpur, Naya Gyanodaya, Vartaman Sahitya (Ghaziabad), and Sahitya Akademi's Samakaleen Bharatiya Sahitya besides several other publications.
Samartha is also a co-translator (along with Shailendra Shail) of Soumitra Mohan's long Hindi poem, Luqman Ali (लुक़मान अली) into English. The translation was published in Chandrabhaga 14/2007 and then in Asymptote.
Samartha lives in Noida, India, where he works with Adobe Systems. He is married to Ashu Vashishtha and has a daughter, Aadya.