Pushcart prize winning poet, editor, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, The Autobiography of a Goddess‘(Zubaan/University of Chicago), The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks‘ (University of Arkansas), ‘The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1997-2017 (Recent Works Press) and W.W. Norton’s ‘Language for a New Century’ called “a beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. He currently holds an international research fellowship from the University of Sydney and his memoir ‘Correctional‘ is forthcoming in 2021 with University of Wisconsin Press.