Sukrita Paul Kumar, former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, held the prestigious Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi University till recently. An honorary faculty at Corfu, Greece, she was an invited poet at the prestigious International Writing Programme at Iowa, USA. She has published several collections of poems, the recent ones being Country Drive and Dream Catcher. Her critical books include Narrating Partition, The New Story and Conversations on Modernism. She has co-edited several books that include Ismat: Her Life, Her Times, Cultural Diversity in India, and Speaking for Herself: Asian Women’s Writings. Her translations of fiction from Urdu and Hindi have been published by HarperCollins and Katha. Amongst many other fellowships and residencies of international significance, she was also invited to be an Honorary Fellow and resident poet at HK Baptist University, Hong Kong, in 2004.