About Me

Arti Jain is a poet, an award-winning spoken word artist, a storyteller, an author, and a photography enthusiast.

She won the silver award for her spoken word piece titled, Swahaa. Swahaa. Swahaa at the IFP, Mumbai in October 2024.

Her piece, “What about Mummy’s saris?” I ask my father after thirty years was shortlisted for the 2024 Flash Flood Day.

Arti’s works have appeared in many reputed international literary journals and anthologies.
These include The Kali Project, Kindle India Magazine, Flash Flood Journal, Gulmohur
Quarterly, The Hooghly Review, Muse India, Poems India, Tape-a-Tale, Epistemic Literary,
BTWN, Porch Litmag and Usawa Literary Review.

Her poetry and spoken word performances such as Mohini, Yesterday is not Alive, Wibbly Wobbly Belly and Slaves Can Never Be Free have premiered on Mirchi Mehfil’s YouTube channel.

She has authored two books: And all the Seasons in between (Ukiyoto Publishing, June 2021)
and Don’t Climb on The Bullock Cart (Parakeet Books, U.K. 2023). 

She writes and performs in English and Hindi and lives in Doha, Qatar with her husband.