Amrita Valan is an Indian writer with two published books,
Arrivederci Fifty Poems, (Gloomy Seahorse Press, 2021) and a collection of 17 short stories,
In Between Pauses, (Imp Spired Press, 2021). Her poems, essays, and short stories have been published in online journals and anthologies, such as Outlook Weekender, Piker’s Press, Literary Heist, Shot Glass Journal, Café Dissensus, Café Lit, Setu, The Fib Review, Modern Literature, The Crossroads, Literary Yard, Literati, Portland Metro zine, Short Story Town, Poetry and Places, Last Leaves, Wink, The Poet, Oddball, Insignia fiction zine and anthologies, The World of Myth Magazine, The Alien Buddha zines and anthologies, Ponder Savant, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Rabble Review, Fairfield Scribes, Spillwords, Imp spired, World Inkers.com, New York Parrot Literary Review, Harbinger’s Asylum, (Transcendental Zero Press) Atlantean Publishing, and others. She has appeared in Poetica 2 and 3, (Clarendon Press), in A Quiet Afternoon II by Grace and Victoire Publishing, Me and You Medical Journal, Robin Barratt’s anthologies on Christmas, Childhood, Faith, Adversity, Culture, and Identity, Queen, and Ukraine. In The Poet, she was featured poet for her poems on mental health, other work on mental health was anthologized in Indie Blue Publishing’s Through the Looking Glass, and her poetry on fibromyalgia appears in Indie Blue Publishing’s “But You Don’t Look that Sick to Me.” She was a featured writer and spotlight poet for the Creative Talents Unleashed group for her poems and haikus, In My Country, Ripples, Vision, Gold Dust, Deep White Pearls, Death Upon Me, and Shining of Last Light. She was nominated Poet of the Day for her poem, Someone Loved Me, by The Poet on May 3, 2021. Her short story A Normal Day was featured in the 2021 Best of the Best anthology by Potato Soup Journal. In 2021 she won a jury award for an ekphrastic on Van Gogh’s Café Terrace from the Friendswood Ekphrastic Poetry contest and was shortlisted again in 2022, for her ekphrastic poems on Picasso. She also narrated her own short stories for Alan Johnson’s Storyboard.
