“The primary challenge when it comes to publishing poetry is perhaps the long wait times a lot of the journals have.”- Nikita Parik (Indian Poet)

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian poet Nikita Parik as a part of the South Asian Women Writers Feature.

For the whole of March, we will be featuring South Asian Women Writers on Kitaab for the whole of March. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.

Today, we are featuring Indian poet Nikita Parik.

Nikita is the 2022-2023 Charles Wallace Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling (Scotland). Her third and latest book, My City is a Murder of Crows (Poetry, July 2022), was recently shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize.