Her poem, ‘Silence’ has been selected to appear in the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2024
Poet | Author | Storyteller
Arti Jain is an award winning spoken word artist, a poet, an author and a storyteller. Her works have appeared in numerous international literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Doha, Qatar, with her husband.
Latest Published Work
I dreamt I orbited high above the deepest reaches of the Earth’s core where Wisdom winters
Published in the FlashFlood
Photo by Maddy Weiss at unsplash
Of Songs, Thresholds and Slippers
Published in the Epistemic Literary
Of Songs, Threshholds, and Slippers has been nominated for the Genrepunk Awards in the Wildcard Category.
Aap, Hum and Comfort in a Banarasi Traffic Jam
Published in The Hooghly Review
2019 Benaras Ganga Aarti near Aassi Ghat
Photo by Goutam Dutta (Wikimedia Commons CC)
Published Books
Jamun Tree
Short Story published in the KINDLE, Magazine,
Published Creative Non-Fiction
Of Songs, Thresholds, and Slippers (Published in the Epistemic Literary)
A new song sung; nay, belted out by a familiar female voice floods the car as Idrive to the library one morning— Main thaare paon ki jutti na Ke jad jee kare per li utaar di I’m not the slipper on your footthat you use and discard at your whim I dial up the volume....
“What about Mummy’s saris?” I ask my father after thirty years
“Tsk…later, eat these first.” Daddy points to piping hot samosas. ‘Got them specially for you.’ It’s been thirty years. He doesn’t know I’ve turned gluten free. I ask again. “We must’ve given them to the maids or something…it’s been thirty years.” “Not even one?”...
Accoutrements of Hiraeth
Deep winter. Dehradun. I’m five years old. Papaji, my grandfather, is collecting glowing embers of coal from my grandmother’s chullah (earthen stove) in the courtyard. He’s using a pair of old iron tongs, no bigger than his large farmer’s hands, to scoop out...