Gopika Jadeja

Gopika Jadeja is a bilingual (English & Gujarati) poet and translator. A PEN Presents translation award winner and Charles Wallace Scholar for Creative Writing, she completed a PhD in South Asian Studies in 2019. Gopika is Coordinating Editor for peer-reviewed journal PR&TA (pratajournal.com) and editor/publisher of ‘Five Issues’, a performance-publishing project. Her writing appears in publications such as Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, Indian Literature, A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred (2020) and River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation (2023). She is currently translating Dalit and Adivasi poetry from Gujarat and working on two poetry collections.