Maitreyi Karnoor

Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of the novel Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship for creative writing and translation. She has won the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati prize and has been shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and The Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Travel Poems

Waiting for the Haripriya Express The train connecting the god of creation To his consort, the goddess of wealth Is late by a half hour;  Men who shed their manes  In utter devotion Utter curses under their breaths; I read