Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih is an award-winning Khasi poet and writer. His latest works are The Distaste of the Earth (Penguin), the critically acclaimed Funeral Nights (Westland), The Yearning of Seeds: Poems (HarperCollins) and Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu (HarperCollins). He is the co-editor of Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India (HarperCollins) and Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India (Penguin).
