Akhil Katyal

Akhil Katyal is a writer, academic, gay activist and translator based in Delhi. He finished his PhD at SOAS and currently teaches literature at Shiv Nadar University. His book of poems Night Charge Extra was short-listed for the Muse India Satish Verma National Award and his second poetry book I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight (forthcoming 2017) won the Editor’s Choice Award from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. He was part of the Delhi based queer collective Nigah for several years and continues to write frequently on sexuality and politics.