teaches English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She was born in Guwahati, but has lived in Delhi since 1994. Das’s PhD from JNU dealtwith constructions of the Assamese Identity under the British. Her first poetry collection, Boki, was published in September 2008. Her poetry has also been published in online sites like Poetry International Web, Pratilipi, Muse India, Eclectica, Seven Sisters Post, Four Quarters Magazine, Northeast Review and Poetry with Prakriti. Das’s poetry works with voice, soundscape and comic defamiliarisation.  Her interests include fractals, bird photography, caricatures, comic books, poetry as hypertext and translation from Assamese to English. At present she is working on her second book of poetry.