Arundhathi Subramaniam is an award-winning poet and writer on spirituality and culture. She has published several books of poetry in the UK with Bloodaxe Books: Where I Live: New & Selected Poems (2009), which combines selections from her first two Indian collections, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with new work; When God Is a Traveller (2014), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry (awarded by India’s national academy of letters), the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize at the Jaipur Literary Festival, and the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy; Love Without a Story (2020); and The Gallery of Upside Down Women (2025).
Her internationally published work includes Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred Journeys (Harper Collins, US, 2025) and Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry (Penguin Books India, 2024). Previous books include The Book of Buddha (Penguin, 2005), and the biography, Sadhguru: More Than a Life (Penguin, 2010), as well as Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (Penguin, 2014).
She mostly lives in Mumbai, Chennai and New York.
Author photo © Meetash Taneja
This biography is taken from the Bloodaxe Books website.
