Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, translator and curator whose work focuses on transcultural histories and ecopoetics. He is the author of eight poetry collections, as well as two well received translations of the poems of Lal Ded and Mir Taqi Mir. He is the co-editor of an international trans-disciplinary anthology, ‘Practices of Hope: A Reader for the Future’. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award. An alumnus of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, he has taught Creative Writing at Ashoka University, serves on the Editorial Board of the Murty Classical Library of India/Harvard University Press, and is a Fellow of the inaugural cohort of Georgetown University’s Global Dialogues program.