Aekta K. is a writer and educator from Mumbai, who associates herself closely to water.

She is the founder of Poetry Plant Project, a safe and inclusive platform, where she conducts month-long generative creative writing workshops. Her PPP students have been admitted to MFA programs with both, full and partial scholarships in the U.S., they have works published nationally and internationally, and a few are working on their full-length books with her. 

Aekta’s book with the working title, “A Glass of Blue” was a finalist for the Rising Writer Prize in Poetry 2024 by Autumn House Press. She is the winner of Breakout Prize 2022 in Poetry, and The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest in Poetry. She’s a finalist for Indiana Review’s Poetry Prize 2022, her work is nominated for Pushcart Prize by Epiphany, Best of Net by Nurture Literary, Best Microfiction by Passages North, and elsewhere. She’s been long listed for TOTO awards by TFA four times. Her film, “New Normal” whose script she has written, won the Best Microfilm award at Indie Short Fest by Los Angeles International Film Festival among numerous others.  She has works published in Penn Review, Variant Lit, Tupelo Quarterly, Speculative Nonfiction, VIDA, Jaggery, Kitaab Singapore, Muse India, Variant Lit, The Offing, The Inquisitive Eater, Quail Bell Magazine, The Bombay Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Aekta holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School in New York. She’s also taught creative writing at Parsons School of Design, High School of Economics & Finance with WriteOn NYC, Writing Workshops, and Girls Write Now.