I would like to describe myself as a woman writer obsessed with revolutionary Dr.Ambedkar’s message of caste annihilation.
(But since people aren’t judged by what they say are, and instead by what they have done, here’s a brief profile.)
Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, activist and translator. Her work maintains a focus on caste annihilation, linguistic identity and feminism. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms Militancy (2010).
She was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Creative Writing, Newcastle University (UK) in 2010.
Meena was the youngest person ever to represent India as a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program 2009. She was a featured poet at the City of Asylum Jazz Poetry Concert 2009 held in Pittsburgh, USA, 14th Poetry Africa International Festival in October 2010 in Durban, DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2011, Blue Metropolis Literature Festival (Montreal) and the Ottawa Writers’ Festival 2011 .
Previously, she edited ‘The Dalit’, a bi-monthly English magazine. She holds a PhD in socio-linguistics from Anna University Chennai.
She is now working on her first novel The Gypsy Goddess.
