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Shloka Shankar (born May 23, 1989, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), Indian poet, editor, publisher, and visual artist. A Best of the Net nominee, her poems and artwork have appeared in more than 200 top print and online venues. Shankar is the founding editor of Sonic Boom (2014) and its imprint Yavanika Press; founding member of Triveni Haikai India (2016); editor and coeditor of several international poetry anthologies, including Naad Anunaad: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (2016); assistant editor of Human/Kind (2019–2020); and panelist for the THF Touchstone Individual Poems Award (2023). Her books include Points of Arrival (2021), the haiku collection The Field of Why (2022), as poet-compiler, Living in the Pause: An Anthology of Collaborative Haiga 2020–2024. Shankar has won recognition in, among others, the Morioka and Yamadera contests (Japan), Polish Haiku Competition, Maya Lyubenova Contest (Bulgaria), Sharpening the Green Pencil Contest (Romania), and H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (U.S.A.). She lives in Bangalore, India.
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