Kirun Kapur

Kirun Kapur is a poet, editor, and translator. She is the author of Women in the Waiting Room (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist (Elixir Press, 2015), which won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry and the Antivenom Poetry Award. 

Kapur teaches at Amherst College, where she is the director of the creative writing program.