Aryanil Mukherjee

Aryanil Mukherjee (b. 1964) is a bilingual poet, translator, and editor who grew up in Kolkata, India, and later emigrated to the United States. He has authored ten books of poetry and essays in two languages. Widely published in both Indian (Bengali) and American poetry circles, his work has been featured in many anthologies, including the HarperCollins book of Indian Poetry in English (2011), the Indian poetry issue of TLR, Indivisible, an anthology of South Asian American poetry, and Pared de Agua, an anthology of contemporary Bengali poetry (Olifante Press, Madrid, Spain). He edits Kaurab, a much-celebrated Bangla literary magazine of experimental poetry and literature published since 1970. His poetry has been translated into Hindi and Spanish. A PhD in aerospace engineering, Aryanil works as an engineering mathematician and lives in Cincinnati.