Ranu Uniyal Pant

Poet & Disability Activist

Ranu Uniyal is Former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Lucknow.   She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Hull, UK.  An author/ editor of several books, her articles and book reviews have been published widely.  Her poetry has appeared in Cordite Poetry , Mascara Literary Review, TEXT Special issue (Australia), Jaggery, Medulla Review, Sketch Book, Setu, Twenty 20, Whispers (USA), Littlewood Press (UK), Bengal Lights (Bangla Desh), Asia Literary Review, Cha (Hongkong), Turning Pages (Germany), Words and Worlds (Austria), Ethos literary journal, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, Dhauli Review, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, Femina, Manushi, Indian Literature, Madras Courier and several anthologies both in India and abroad.  She has published four poetry collections:  Across the Divide (2006), December Poems (2012) and The Day We Went Strawberry Picking in Scarborough (2018) was translated in Spanish El dia que fuimos a coger fresas en Scarborough by Traduccion de Carmen Escobedo de Tapia in (2020).  Her latest collection of poems This Could be A Love Poem For You was published in ( 2025) by Red River.   First set of Hindi Poems Saeeda Ke Ghar was published in 2021.  She co-edited essays Reading Gandhi: Perspectives in the 21st Century (2022), Mahatma Gandhi: Essays on Life and Literature (2023), Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches (Springer 2023).  She has read her poems at international literature festivals and conferences in Almora, Aligarh, Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Chemnitz, Calicut, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lancaster, Lucknow, Madrid, Meerut, Tashkent, and Udaipur.  She was on a Writer’s residency in 2019 at Uzbekistan.  Her poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Oriya, Malayalam, Marathi, Spanish, Urdu, and Uzbek languages.  She is a founding member of PYSSUM, a day care centre for people with special needs in Lucknow and also Chief editor of  Pyssum Literaria