From the Biography of an Unknown Woman

About the Book

The poems From the Biography of an Unknown Woman are written over a decade based on my personal responses to the lives of a cross section of women I came across. The poems are reflective of emotions, feelings, responses and experiences of many women which I consider can be of any woman. The words in the anthology smile, laugh, bleed, shed tears, remain passive, in short they speak of lives lived, lives living…

About the Author

INDIRA BABBELLAPATI, a professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, is a published poet and translator. She is also on the panel of translators of Sahitya Akademi. Affaire de Coeur, Vignettes of the Sea, echo… and The Night of Nectar-(translation) are some of her published anthologies. She is also anthologized in Roots and Wings, Heaven, Suvarnarekha and Persona. An anthology of twenty Telugu short stories--Gender Game and other Stories, and a Telugu novel, The Dusk, are her published translations. Her translations are also found in Indian Literature and Gold Nuggets. Her original poetry in English has been translated into Hindi, Bangla, Spanish, and French. Indira has also co-authored English text books for technical undergraduates. Presently she is engaged in the compilation of two poetry anthologies, nomadic nights and just for once…and the translation of short fiction of a renowned story teller for Sahitya Akademi, and an anthology of poems of a well-known Telugu poet. She can be reached at drbindira@gmail.com