Akhil Katyal (born 1985 in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh) [1] is an Indian poet, translator, scholar and a queer activist. [2]
Akhil Katyal (born 1985 in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh) [1] is an Indian poet, translator, scholar and a queer activist. [2]
Katyal has published four books of poems: The Last Time I Saw You, Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems, How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross, and Night Charge Extra. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] During fall 2016, he was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. [10] He was the recipient of the Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellowship for the year 2021. In 2018, he translated Ravish Kumar's book of Hindi poems Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love. [11] In 2020, he co-edited The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia. [12] His work appears in Jeet Thayil (ed.) The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (2022). [13] In the summer of 2022, he guest edited a special issue on 'New Indian English Poetry' for Poetry at Sangam. [14]
Katyal is from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He has taught creative writing at Ambedkar University Delhi. [15]
Indian poet and queer activist Akhil Katyal resists against it in this fiery poem