Bipin Patsani Biography

Bipin Patsani (b.1951) is an Indian English Poet from Odisha. His poems have been published in many prestigious literary journals and poetry anthologies including Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi) , Indian Scholar (Raipur) , The Journal of Indian Writing in English (Gulbarga) , Chandrabhaga (Cuttack) , Kavya Bharati (Madurai) , The Brown Critique (New Delhi) , Poet (Chennai) , Poets International (Bangalore) , Metverse Muse (Visakhapatnam) , Poetcrit (Maranda/ now published by Prints Publications, New Delhi) , Kafla (Chandigarh) , Bridge-in-Making (Kolkata) , Fantasy (Allahabad) , Skylark (Aligarh) , Rock Pebbles (Jajpur) , Sabd (Guwahati) , Replica (Cuttack) , Poesie India(Bhubaneswar) , Green Lotus (HOLI, BBSR) , Poetry Time, Voices (Berhampur) , Cyber Literature (Patna) , The Quest (Ranchi) , The Eternity (Jamshedpur) , The Heart Of The Millennium (Sussex, U.K.) , International Poetry (Bluffton, U.S.A) , Prophetic Voices (California, U.S.A.) , Ballads Of Our lives (ILP, U.S.A.) , Extasis Poeticos (Spain) , Perigramma (Greece) , Indo-Asian Literature (Delhi) , Indian Book Chronicle (Jaipur) , New Global Voice (Bangalore) and Explorers (Allahabad) etc.

His first poetry collection VOICE OF THE VALLEY was published in 1993 by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. His second collection ANOTHER VOYAGE and third collection HOMECOMING have been published by Wordsmith Publishers, Guwahati in 2010. He is a recipient of Michael Madhusudan Award/1996. He received Rock Pebbles National Award in 2018 for his contributions to Indian English Poetry. Some of his poems have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese by Dr.Teresinka Pereira (President, IWA, U.S.A.) and Juan Torres (New York) . He has manuscripts ready for three other collections. His poems appear in social media regularly.

Bipin Patsani was born at Badatota, a village near Khordha in Odisha, India. He has been writing poems in English since his school days when he was a student of K.C.Vidyapith, Janla near Bhubaneswar. He graduated with English(Hons) at P.N.College, Khordha in 1973 and did his Post Graduation in English at Ravenshaw College(now a University) , Cuttack in 1975/76. He had been working as a teacher in Arunachal Pradesh from 1978 to 2012 and he is a recipient of Arunachal Pradesh Governor's Award in 2002 for his contribution as a dedicated teacher. He worked at Bomdila, Rupa, Kalaktang And Doimukh where he lived with his wife Manjula, two daughters Monalisa(a Journalist) and Manisha, and son Amaresh who is hearing impaired. Now he lives with his family at his native place at Barunei Colony, P.O. Badatota, Distt. Khordha, Odisha - 752050, India. Contact: bpatsani@gmail.com