Meena Kandasamy is a twenty-one year old writer, poet and translator based in Chennai. She has won the first prize in the national level 'Indian Horizons Poetry Contest' conducted by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Government of India for her poem Mascara.

Her poem My Lover Speaks of Rape recently won the first prize in Disha 2004 , an all-India poetry contest organized by the International Organization for the Prevention of Crime and Victim Care. Her poems have been published in The Little Magazine, Muse India, Kritya, Sulekha, Great Works, Sweet and QLRS. Her first collection of poetry will be published shortly.

   Frenzied Light
   Non-conversations with a lover
   Another Paradise Lost: The Hindu Way
   Meeting the Prophetess
   Returning Home
   Advice to an upwardly mobile man
   The Flight of Birds
   Sage in the Cubicle