Arundhathi Subramaniam is an award-winning poet, artist and an eminent writer on spirituality and culture. Born in 1967, she divides her time between Bombay and a yoga centre in Coimbatore.

As editor, she has worked on a Penguin anthology of essays on sacred journeys in the country (Pilgrim  India), and a Sahitya Akademi anthology of Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English (Another Country). She has co-edited a Penguin anthology of contemporary Indian love poems in English (Confronting Love).

As a poet, she has been invited to literary conferences and festivals in various parts of India, as well as in the UK, Italy, Spain, Holland, Turkey, China, West Africa and Israel, and her work has been translated into several languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Italian and Spanish. She was a star attraction at Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) 2016 where she had a book release conversation with Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Orissa on Prof Mohanty's book "Lost World of Sarala Devi" published by Oxford University Press. She was also a panelist at "The Role of Women throughout the Ages of Literature" at the KLF 2016.

On 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work When God is a Traveller