Harjot Banga

Harjot Banga (he/him/his) is a poet, writer and PhD candidate in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, currently living between Punjab, London and Turin. His work explores memory, displacement, marginalisation, caste, gender, and the sensual body across languages and cultures. His poetry has appeared in the magazine Cronica Regia (2011–2013), the bilingual anthology Scrittori sotto i riflettori (2019), The Red River Book of Poets of Dissent (2021), The Hooghly Review Poetry Special (2025), and Majlis Mag (Issue 01: Uprising) (2026). He is the author of the Punjabi collection Gaman of Kishti (2019) and the self-published Melodia di un’interiorità infranta (2017), which won the “Ossi di Seppia” award for best foreign author (2018). In 2020, he received a Diploma of Excellence in the Scrittori sotto i riflettori award. His work was also featured by the Partition Museum in Amritsar on World Museum Day 2020.