About Me

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

Her poem, ‘Silence’ has been selected to appear in the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2024

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

Her piece, ‘I dreamt I orbited high above the deepest reaches of the Earth’s core where Wisdom winters’ was published by Flash Flood in June 2025.

She conducted a workshop based on her book at the Bangalore Literature Festival in December 2024. She also performed at the Gaatha Storytelling Festival in Mumbai in October 2024.

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.