Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Biography

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih was born and brought up in Sohra, Meghalaya. He writes poems, drama and fiction in Khasi and English. His latest works include the epic-length novel Funeral Nights (Westland) and Manik: A Play in Five Acts (Dhauli Books) . His collections of poetry in English include Moments (Writers Workshop) , The Sieve (Writers Workshop) , The Yearning of Seeds (HarperCollins) and Time's Barter: Haiku and Senryu (HarperCollins) . He is the author of Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends (Penguin) and the co-editor of Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India (Penguin) .
He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, The New Welsh Review, PEN International, The Literary Review, Karavan, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry International Web, Presence, Cattails, Asahi Haikuist, Wales Haiku Journal, World Haiku Review, Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, Down to Earth, The Indian Quarterly, The Hindu Business Line, Indian Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, Pilgrim's India, Day's End Stories and others.
His awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura,2004) , the first Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for tribal literature (Madhya Pradesh,2008) , a Tagore Fellowship (IIAS, Shimla,2018) , The Bangalore Review June Jazz Award (2021) and the Sparrow Literary Award (2022) .
He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.