Born in Mumbai, Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an academician with over fifteen years of international teaching experience. Her collection Hiraeth is an honouree in the 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and is published as a digital and audiobook in partnership with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada. An award-winning writer, several institutions have recognized her work, including Tin House, GRANTA, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Ontario Arts Council, The Charles Wallace Trust, The Vijay Nambisan Foundation, The Writers’ Trust of Canada, and British Council. Her multi-genre work has been published in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Meridian, Salamander, and elsewhere. Her work has been anthologized widely, including in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (ed. Jeet Thayil), published by the Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton, and Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems (eds. Nomi Stone & Luke Hankins), Orison Books. She is one of the founding editors of Parentheses Journal.
Content by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Nonfiction,
Dispatches From Cinderella
In this story, Cinderella takes the path less travelled. She will become a first-generation migrant in Canada, is born in Mumbai, and has she/her pronouns.
Poetry,
Mythologies
The myths are logged in our collarbones, / travel through our mid riffs. Our stomachs / learn to home mythologies as prayer.