Kanwar Dinesh Singh lives at Shimla where he teaches English language and literature in a college affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University. Winner of the Himachal Pradesh State Sahitya Akademi Award (2002), he has brought out several volumes of poetry and short fiction in English and Hindi, besides books in literary criticism. Recently, he edited The Poetry of Walt Whitman: New Critical Perspectives (Atlantic) and Hues of Life: An Anthology of Short Stories (Oxford). Email: kanwardineshsingh@gmail.com