Jennifer Robertson

Jennifer Robertson is a poet, critic, and an independent consultant based in Bombay. Jennifer’s critical essays have appeared in The American Book Review, The Scroll, Telegraph, Mint, and Vayavya. Her poems have been published by the Emma Press, UK, The Missing Slate, Almost Island, and Domus. Her poems have been widely anthologised in the Global Anthology of Anglophone Poetry published by Poetry Foundation, USA; the 40 under 40: Anthology of Post-Globalisation Poetry published by Poetrywala; Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi); and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Jennifer’s poem have been translated to Chinese as a part of an Indo-Chinese translation project entitled Himalayas: Contemporary Indian & Chinese Poetry. Jennifer has convened the literary chapter for the PEN All-India Centre at Prithvi Theatre, and was the literary curator for the ‘Celebrate Bandra Festival’.Her debut poetry collection Folie à deux won The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective’s Editor’s Choice Award. The American edition of Folie à deux was published by Everybody Press in the USA.