Pravat Kumar Padhy, based in Bhubaneswar, India, obtained his Master of Science and a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. He is a mainstream poet, an essayist and a writer of Japanese short-form poetry. His literary work is cited in Interviews with Indian Writing in English, Spectrum History of Indian Literature in English, Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Poetry, History of Contemporary Indian English Poetry, etc. His poem “How Beautiful” is included in the university-level undergraduate curriculum. He served as a panel judge of “The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems” and haibun and haiga editor, ‘Under the Bash?. ’ His work has been anthologized including Contemporary Haibun, Red Moon Press anthology, and others. He introduced new forms of poetry: Hainka: a fusion of haiku and tanka, Braided Haiku and Micro-Haiga (One-word Haiku). He is honoured as the Confluence Councilor for Confluence Haiku Journal and the jury member for the “Wind on the Cherry Blossoms Haiku Project,” Associazione Culturale "Rami d'Oro, Italy ( 2026).
Pravat Kumar Padhy