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Urvashi Bahuguna is an Indian poet and essayist. She is the recipient of Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, Sangam House fellowship, Eclectica Spotlight Author Prize, and a TOTO Award for Creative Writing.

Early life
Urvashi was born in Cuttack, Orissa, India. She grew up in Goa, and later moved to the capital New Delhi. She gained an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in England in 2014. Her debut poetry collection, Terrarium, was originally titled Mudscope. It was selected for the 2017 Emerging Poets Prize by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and published in 2019.

Selected publications

 * Terrarium (The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, 2019)
 * No Straight Thing Was Ever Made: Essays on mental health (Penguin India, 2021)