About Kavita Jindal |
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| Kavita writes fiction and poetry. She also writes lyrics, reviews on the Arts and literary criticism. In 2012 she won the Vintage Books/Foyles' Haruki Murakami short story competition with her entry A Flash of Pepper. Her poetry collection, Raincheck Renewed, was published to critical acclaim by Chameleon Press in Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies and newspapers around the world including The Independent, The South China Morning Post, The Indian Express, Dimsum, The Mechanics' Institute Review, Asia Literary Review, Cha, The Moth Magazine, In Our Own Words, and Not A Muse. She is a contributor to Birkbeck College's Writers' Hub website. Kavita was born in India and has lived in both Hong Kong and England for many years. She works as a free-lance editor and also mentors other writers, helping to shape their prose or poetry manuscripts. She regularly reads from her fiction and poetry in London, where she is based, as well as at universities and literary festivals in Asia and Europe. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Punjabi, and Romanian. She undertakes commissions: her most recent being a poem that was performed as part of the service at a church wedding in late 2011. She is the convenor of the South-West London Stanza of the Poetry Society. Interviews
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