PERVIN SAKET is an Obermann International Fellow, Fall 2025, at the University of Iowa. In 2024, she was a writer-in-residence at the university through the International Writing Program. She was awarded the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2021 and she was the inaugural Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, 2021. Her latest poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize and the Wheelbarrow Books Prize (Michigan State University) 2023.

On her way to things literary, she has worked as a mystery shopper, a karate instructor, a junior artist in Bollywood films and a gaming parlour attendant, along with the mandatory pit stops of teaching Joyce and writing ad content.

Her novel Urmila has been adapted for the stage, featuring classical Indian dance forms of Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Odissi. Her poems, including the debut collection A Tinge of Turmeric, and her forthcoming collection A Theory of Knots, have been widely anthologised.

Pervin has served as the curator of Literature at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, and as the Poetry Editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine. She co-founded the Kolam Writers’ Workshop.