U n' I with Rashmi Shetty -Season 3- Teji Sethi

Our guest this episode is Teji Sethi a Bangalore-based nutritionist-turned-poet whose bilingual works span free verse, haikai verse, and visual poetry. With a distinctive blend of sensitivity and lyrical grace, her poems and reviews have appeared in over forty national and international journals and anthologies,

including The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2020–24), Indian Literature Journal (Sahitya Akademi), Modern Haiku, The Haiku Foundation, Acorn, Wales Haiku Journal, The Heron’s Nest, Ribbons, Muse India, Narrow Road Journal, The Kolkata Review, haikuKATHA, SetuMag (Pittsburgh), and The Partition Museum of India.

Sethi is the author of moss laden walls (2021) and co-editor of amber i pause (2023). Her poetry often draws from the musicality of nature and the layered narratives of the India–Pakistan Partition. Her Partition-themed Hindi poem “Kapaas Ke Phool” (2019) won the Partition Poetry Contest by the Partition Museum of India and was later translated into Punjabi and broadcast on Radio Lahore, Pakistan.

Her haikai work has been widely recognized, earning numerous awards and commendations. Her haibun on cancer, “it is”, won the Muse India Triveni Award (2023). Her tanka “how does one measure” was among the Top Three in the Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest (2024), and her haiga “surgical drains” secured First Prize in the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest (2024). Most recently, she received the Glass House Poetry Award (2024) for her poem on cancer, “Genetically Modified Landscapes of My Town”.

Having journeyed through cancer, Teji follows a unique path of art, poetry, and language — harvesting life experiences and transforming them into creative expressions while sharing positive vibrations across both her personal and artistic communities. She is also the founding editor of Triya, a bilingual micro-poetry journal.

Founder: Triya Mag

moss laden walls, amber i pause

Facebook Instagram