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, published as a digital and audiobook in partnership with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada. An award-winning writer, her work has been recognized by several institutions including Ontario Arts Council, Tin House, 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, 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. She is one of the founding editors of Parentheses Journal.