Shanta Acharya was born in India , educated at Oxford and Harvard and is currently based in London. Her five books of poetry are Dreams That Spell The Light (Arc Publications, UK ; 2009), Shringara (Shoestring Press, UK; 2006), Looking In, Looking Out (Headland Publications, UK; 2005), Numbering Our Days’ Illusions (Rockingham Press, UK; 1995) and Not This, Not That (Rupa & Co, India; 1994). Her doctoral study, The Influence of Indian Thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press, USA , in 2001. A founder director of Poetry in the House, she has been hosting international poetry readings every month at Lauderdale House in Highgate, north London, since 1996.
| 
