Akhil Katyal is a Delhi based writer and translator who has authored Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems and How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross. He has also translated Ravish Kumar’s book of prose poems, Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love. Akhil was the International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa in Fall 2016 and was awarded the Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellowship for the year 2021.