Akhil Katyal

Akhil Katyal is an Indian poet and queer activist.
Career.
Katyal has published three books of poems - "Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems", "How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross" and "Night Charge Extra". During Fall 2016, he was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. In 2018, he translated Ravish Kumar's book of Hindi poems "Ishq Mein Shahar Hona" as "A City Happens in Love". In 2020, he co-edited "The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia". 
Katyal is from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and teaches creative writing at Ambedkar University Delhi.