RAHUL SONI

Rahul Soni is a writer, editor and translator based in India. He is Editorial Head at Writer’s Side, a literary agency and manuscript assessment service, Associate Editor with Almost Island, a journal for literature that “threatens, confronts, or bypasses the marketplace”, Editor-at-Large (India) with Asymptote, an international journal of literature in translation, and Season Coordinator at the Sangam House international writers’ residency program. He founded and, from 2008 to 2012, edited Pratilipi, a literary journal, and Pratilipi Books, an independent publishing imprint. He was a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2010, and received the Sangam House Fellowship in 2012. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Almost Island, Asymptote, Biblio, Dhauli Review, Hindi, Indian Literature, La Hoja de Arena, Out of Print Magazine, Pix: A Photography Quarterly, Poetry International Web, Pratilipi, Recours au Poème, Tehelka, The Four Quarters Magazine, and other venues. He edited the anthology of Hindi Poetry in English translation, Home from a Distance (Pratilipi Books, 2011), and translated Shrikant Verma’s collection of poetry, Magadh (Almost Island Books, 2013) and Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tirohit (HarperCollins, 2013).