Kiriti Sengupta splits his time between New Delhi and Santiniketan, the university town founded by Rabindranath Tagore as a hub for learning and the arts. This dual residence grounds his writing in both contemporary Indian life and Bengal’s rich literary legacy. As a translator of Tagore and other Bengali poets, Sengupta maintains a direct connection to that tradition. His collection Healing Waters Floating Lamps won the inaugural Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize in 2018, and he was honoured with the Nilim Kumar National Honour in 2024. Sengupta’s Selected Poems, published by Transcendent Zero Press (Houston) in 2025, showcases a career spanning fourteen books of poetry and prose he authored. Additionally, he has published two collections of translations and edited nine anthologies.
In addition to his writing, Sengupta is actively involved in independent publishing. He serves as the chief editor of Ethos Literary Journal and leads the English division at Hawakal Publishers, where he has nurtured new voices in poetry and prose for over a decade.