Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, born in Sohra, Meghalaya, writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English. His latest works include the critically acclaimed novel Funeral Nights—to be published in the UK and the US in 2024—The Yearning of Seeds: Poems, Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu and Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends. He is the co-editor of Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India and Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India. He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, New Welsh Review, PEN International, The Literary Review, Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast India, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Indian Quarterly, Down to Earth, The Hindu Business Line, Pilgrim’s India, Day’s End Stories and more. His awards include the Northeast Poetry Award (2004), the Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award (2008), a Tagore Fellowship (2018), The Bangalore Review June Jazz Award (2021) and the Sparrow Literary Award (2022). He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.