Amit Shankar Saha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Seacom Skills University, India. He did his PhD in English from Calcutta University. He is also a researcher, a short story writer and a poet. His research articles, essays, reviews, stories and poems have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals and books nationally and internationally. He has won the Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature (Short Story-2015), Wordweavers Prize (Poetry-2011, Short Story-2014), The Leaky Pot – Stranger than Fiction Prize (2014), Asian Cha Void Poetry Prize (Commendable Mention-2014), Reuel International Prize for Poetry (Shortlisted-2016) and other prizes. He has co-edited a collection of short stories titled Dynami Zois: Life Force and authored a collection of poems titled Balconies of Time. He is the co-founder of Rhythm Divine Poets, a Kolkata-based poets group dedicated to the promotion of poetry.