Rati Saxena – Poet/ Translator/ Editor (Kritya web journal for poetry) / Director Poetry festivals -kritya and Vedic scholar. She has Six collections of poetry in Hindi and three in English (Translated by poet) and one each in to Malayalam, Italian, Estonian, and Vietnamese, English, Spanish, Turkish (Upcoming) translated by other poets she has also written a travelogue in Hindi, a Memoir in English“Everything is past tense prose and She has translated 14 books from Malayalam to Hindi and six poetry books from different international languages to Hindi. Her research oriented work includes “the seed of mind, a fresh approach to Atharvaveda” (under the Indira Gandhi Fellowship), she has been invited for the poetry reading in more than 26 prestigious poetry festivals around the world, and Universities. Her poem was also part of space mission by Jaxa, Japan, along with 24 other poems. In 2002. She was also an artist in Former Artist-in-residence at Ebenboeckhaus Munich and Artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta.Her Awards- Fellowship by Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts in 2004-5, Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation 2000, State Bank of Travancore Award for poetry 2001, Naji Naaman’s Literary Prizes ( International) for 2016.