Amit Shankar Saha is a widely-published award-winning poet and short story writer. He has won the Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature, the Wordweavers Prize (both for poetry and short story), Asylum of Allusions Poetry Prize, and the Nissim International Runner-up Prize for Poetry. He has received commendable mentions in Wingword Poetry Contest and Cha ‘Void’ Poetry Contest. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the co-founder of Rhythm Divine Poets, the Assistant Secretary of Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Chief Executive Editor of Virasat Art Publication and the Fiction Editor of Ethos Literary Journal. His poems have been included in Best Indian Poetry Anthology 2018 and he has read his poems at Sahitya Akademi, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival and at other literary events. His two collections of poems are titled Balconies of Time (Hawakal 2017) and Fugitive Words (Hawakal 2019). He has co-edited a volume of short stories titled Dynami Zois. He has a PhD in English from Calcutta University and teaches in the English Department of Seacom Skills University.