Hemant Mohapatra is an Indian poet writing in English. He is featured in the 2011 Best New Poets series distributed by University of Virginia Press.[1] His work has been published in some international journals such as Eclectica, BrinkLit, Asia Writes and the Paterson Literary Review as part of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards series.[2] He is also the winner of the second Srinivas Rayaprol Award [3] and the HarperCollins Poetry Prize. With the change in immigration rules under the Trump administration, he left San Francisco, after living there for many years. He is currently based in India.

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  1. ^ "Best New Poets: Best New Poets 2011 Final Fifty". 6 August 2011.
  2. ^ http://www.pccc.edu/uploads/27/fe/27fea3801f83813bdc68401e2305155c/Allen-Ginsberg-11w.pdf[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Rayaprol prize announced". The Hindu. 12 October 2010.

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