The Emerald Shores

Asha Viswas is a former Professor of English, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She has also taught at Aligarh and at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She has published three collections of poems, two of which received awards: Melting Memories (1996, Delhi) was a recipient of the Michael Madhusudan Academy Award in 1997, and Mortgaged Moorings (published by Writers Workshop, India, 2001), a recipient of the Editors Choice Award given by the International Library of Poetry, USA, in 2003. Her poems have been featured in the shortlist anthology of the all-India poetry competition organized by British Council and the Poetry Society India, Slug fest (USA) and journals like Jalons (France), Kavya Bharati (Madurai), The Brob Times (Ireland).