Menka Shivdasani is a poet, editor and translator with five poetry collections, most recently, ‘The Seven Queens: Sindhi Folktales Retold in English Verse’. She is co-translator, ‘Freedom and Fissures’, an anthology of Sindhi Partition poetry and editor of a SPARROW anthology of women’s writing. She is also editor of ‘The BigBridge Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry’ and co-translator with Mohan Gehani of ‘Love is the Only Finality’: Sindhi Dohiras by Sachal Sarmast. Menka’s awards include the Ethos Literary Award and the inaugural WE Eunice de Souza Award. She co-founded Poetry Circle in Bombay. She is Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT).