Sharmistha Mohanty

Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction: Book One, New Life, and Five Movements in Praise. Her most recent work is a collection of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards, from which these poems are taken. She is founder-editor of the online journal Almost Island.

Winter 2019

Two Poems

Photo: Kordula Vahle/Pixabay * Granaries as long and winding as the shores from which we look at the lit ocean, behind us the fertile land, rivers coming to this sea, silt behind us thousands...
September 2013

Five Movements in Praise by Sharmistha Mohanty

Mumbai. Almost Island. 2013. ISBN 9788192129518 In three books published over a period of eighteen years, Sharmistha Mohanty has been showing, with increasing consistency and verve, that there is mor...