Ardra Manasi is a poet living in New York City.  Her poems have been featured in journals and anthologies published in the US, UK, and India including Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters), Modern Literature, RIC Journal, Muse India, Parentheses Journal, Silk and Smoke, The Palm Leaf, San Fedele Press and elsewhere. In 2020, her poems were part of an international online exhibition “IGNITE – From Within the Confines,” that brought together artists and poets to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2023, her bilingual poem was featured at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), as part of Sahitya Akademi’s Writers’ Shorts. She has been invited to speak and read poetry at various literary events and festivals including UNMESHA, Asia's largest International Literature Festival and the International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference of New York. She holds Masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and The New School, New York City. At present, she works for Global Labor Justice (GLJ) where she leads policy advocacy at the intersection of gender and labor.