born and brought up in Varanasi, studied in Rajghat Besant School, a Krishnamurti Foundation Institution. Moving to Delhi,she did her BA and MA in English from Indraprastha College for Women,University of Delhi. Having now completed an Mphil in English literature with a dissertation on "the Imagined and the Inhabited City in the poetry of Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anjum Hasan, CP Surendran, and Tabish Khair", she is currently looking at Emerging Feminist Trends in Indian Poetry in English, as part of her doctoral project from the University of Delhi.   She has earlier had poetry accepted by The Little Magazine, Muse India, Reading Hour, The Seven Sisters Post, The Chay Magazine, Ultra Violet, Kritya, Brown Critique, North East Review, E-Fiction India, Our Private Literature and  Vayavya. An avid poetry lover, she blogs at www.shrutanne-heartstrings.blogspot.com.