Kandala Singh

  • Graduate Student, MFA Poetry

Kandala Singh (she/her) is a writer, qualitative researcher and teaching artist from New Delhi, India.

Kandala works as a creative writing coach, and holds a joint Masters degree in Human Rights Practice from the Universities of Gothenburg, Roehampton and Tromsoe. She has worked on gender and development issues in India for over a decade.

Her poems appear in Rattle, Eclectica, Hindustan Times, Sweet: A Literary Confection and Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, among other places. She is the recipient of a Dietrich Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh, and a 2023 Katherine Bakeless Contributor Award in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 

She reads poetry for Epiphany Magazine. You can find more at her website.