Sujata Bhatt (b. 1956) grew up in Pune but emigrated with her family to the United States in 1968. She studied in the States receiving an MFA from the University of Iowa and went on to be writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada. More recently she was visiting fellow at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Bremen, Germany. Her first collection, Brunizem, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Subsequent collections have been awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and in 1991 she received a Cholmondeley Award.
Collections include: Poppies in Translation Carcanet, 2015; Collected Poems Carcanet, 2013; Pure Lizard, Carcanet, 2006; A Colour for Solitude, Carcanet, 2002; Augatora, Carcanet, 2000; Point No Point, Carcanet, 1997; The Stinking Rose, Carcanet, 1995; Monkey Shadows, Carcanet, 1991
Sujata Bhatt was involved with 'What if Not transaformation... 'at the Southbank Centre 2014