Ardra Manasi is a poet living in New York City.  Her poems have been featured in journals and anthologies in the US, UK, and India including Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), Modern Literature, RIC Journal, 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 currently works for the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) at Rutgers University. On Twitter, she is @ArdraManasi.