Ranu Uniyal is a bi-lingual Poet and Professor of English, University of Lucknow. She did her doctoral studies from University of Hull, UK. Her poetry has appeared in Cha An Asian Literary Journal, Asia Literary Review, (HongKong), Cordite Poetry Review, TEXT, Mascara Literary Review(Australia), Turning Pages (Germany), Words and Worlds (Austria), Jaggery, Medulla Review, Sketch Book, Twenty 20, Whispers, Setu (USA), Littlewood Press (UK), Bengal Lights (Bangla Desh), The Bombay Review, Dhauli Review, Madras Courier, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, Femina, Manushi, Indian Literature , Spark, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, Ethos journal and several anthologies (such as yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021, The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent, Shimmer Spring, Hibiscus, Still We Sing Voices on Violence against Women, Cuckoo in Crisis, The Dance of the Peacock, Building Bridges: Poems from Australia and India, Suvarnarekha: An Anthology of Indian Women Poets in English).

She has published four poetry collections: Across the Divide (2006) , December Poems (2012) and The Day We Went Strawberry Picking in Scarborough (2018) translated into Spanish in (2020) and Saeeda Ke Ghar (Hindi Poems 2021). Her poems have been translated in German, Hindi, Oriya, Marathi, Malayalam, Spanish, Urdu, and Uzbek languages. She was on a writer’s residency in 2019 at Uzbekistan. She is a founding member of PYSSUM, a centre for people with special needs in Lucknow. She can be reached at ranuuniyalpant@gmail.com. Her website is: ranuuniyal.com.