She has published several collections of poems and many critical books including Dream Catcher, Untitled, Without Margins, Folds of Silence, Narrating Partition, The New Story, Man, Woman and Androgyny and Ismat, Her Life, Her Times. As Director of a UNESCO project, she edited a volume of Urdu short stories in English, Mapping Memories. In 2006, she published, as its Chief Editor, Cultural Diversity in India (MacMillan India) prescribed at Delhi University. While her latest co-edited volume is Speaking For Herself: An Anthology of Asian Women’s Writings (Penguin India), she has also recently published Poems Come Home (HarperCollins) & Rowing Together (Rajkamal), bilingual books of poems with Gulzar and a fellow Hindi poet, Savita Singh.
Her translations of fiction have been published by HarperCollins, Katha and National Book Trust (Blind, Stories of Joginder Paul and Sleepwalkers). Her poems have been translated into many languages including French, Chinese, Swahili etc. A recipient of many prestigious fellowships, she has lectured in many universities in India and abroad.
Her paintings have been exhibited and published in several journals.
She has been the Guest Editor of several journals in India and abroad, including “Manoa: Crossing Over” (University of Hawaii), “Muse India” (Indian Literatures) and “Margaret Lawrence Review”.
