Smita Agarwal is a poet and professor of English at the University of Allahabad, India. Agarwal has been a writer in residence at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and the University of Kent in England.[1] Smita Agarwal's doctoral studies were on Sylvia Plath and is an editor and translator for Plath Profiles the Sylvia Plath online journal, Indiana University, USA.[2]

Works

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Poetry Collections

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  • Wish-granting Words, Ravi Dayal Publisher, New Delhi, 2002
  • Mofussil Notebook. Poems of Small Town India, E-book, Cooperjal Limited, U.K., 2011.[3]

Anthologized

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Agarwal's poems have been included in anthologies such as:
  • Literature Alive,New Writing from India and Britain, Vol. 2, Summer 1996.
  • Nine Indian Women Poets, Oxford University Press, 1997.[4]
  • Verse:Special Feature on Indian poetry, UK & USA, Vol. 17 & 18, 2001.
  • Reasons for Belonging, Penguin, 2002.
  • Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post Independence Poetry From India, Struga Poetry Press, Macedonia, 2003.
  • Confronting Love, Penguin, 2005.
  • Fulcrum: Special Issue on Indian Poetry in English, USA: No. 4, 2005.
  • Sparks, DAV Center for Creative Education, New Panvel, Mumbai, 2008.
  • Indian English Women Poets,New Delhi, Creative Books, 2009.
  • We Speak in Changing Languages:Indian Women Poets, 1990-2007. New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, 2009.

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