Abnish Singh Chauhan/ अवनीश सिंह चौहान (b. 1979), MA, M.Phil, Ph.D, D.Litt (h.c.), is a bilingual poet, short story writer, critic, translator and editor of Poorvabhas and Creation and Criticism. He has authored/edited 15 books, including three collections of poetry and a book on poetry translation, and contributed over 100 articles, book reviews, and research papers to prominent journals, magazines, and newspapers in Hindi and English. He was invited as an author and speaker at ‘Ahmedabad International Literature Festival’ in 2016 and served as a judge and speaker at ‘Young Poets Competition’ during ‘Rendezvous 2017’ at IIT, Delhi. His Hindi and English lyrics have been included in more than two dozen edited anthologies, including Samkaleen Navgeet Sanchayan–Part 1, published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. He has received several prestigious awards, such as ‘Harivansh Rai Bachchan Yuva Geetkar Samman’, ‘Pratham Kavitakosh Samman’, ‘Book of the Year Award’, ‘Srijnatmak Sahitya Puraskar’, and ‘Navankur Puraskar.’ Currently, he is a Professor and Founding Head, Department of English, as well as Founding Principal of BIU College of Humanities and Journalism at Bareilly International University, Bareilly, U.P., India. E-mail: abnishsinghchauhan@gmail.com.