Ankit Raj Ojha has been living between lives since he left his hometown in Bihar, India. A former software engineer and rock band frontman, he has a PhD in literature from IIT Roorkee and is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana. Winner of the Briefly Think Essay Prize 2023 and finalist in the Sundress 2023 Broadside Contest, Ankit has poetry, short fiction, essay and reviews published in Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, The Honest Ulsterman, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Outlook India, Stanchion, BULL, The Broadkill Review, etc. His research articles on myths, archetypes, postmodern fiction and posthumanism appear in Routledge, Johns Hopkins University Press and Vernon Press volumes. Ankit edits The Hooghly Review, is guest editor at Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (Bingöl University, Türkiye), and is a consulting editor with five Routledge journals. Books: Pinpricks (Hawakal, 2022), Wives (Hawakal, 2023). X: @ankit_raj01, Instagram: @ankitrajojha1
