Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated to United States with her family.^{[citation needed]} She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada.^{[citation needed]} She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection Brunizem in 1987.^[1] She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000.^[1] She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Combining Gujarati and English, Bhatt writes "Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry."^[2] Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that her "free verse is fast-moving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken.^[2] Bhatt lives in Bremen, Germany with her husband, the German writer Michael Augustin, and daughter.^[1]

• 1988 Brunizem Carcanet Press
• 1989 The One Who Goes Away Carcanet Press
• 1991 Monkey Shadows Carcanet Press
• 1995 The Stinking Rose Carcanet Press
• 1997 Point No Point Carcanet Press
• 2000 Augatora Carcanet Press
• 2002 The Colour of Solitude (Second edition) Carcanet Press
• 2008 Pure Lizard Carcanet Press
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• Profile and poems written and audio at the Poetry Archive
• poems written archived at The Poetry Society UK
• British Council profile
• BBC Radio 4. Woman's Hour 4 July 2002 (Audio 5 mins)