Vidyan Ravinthiran
Vidyan Ravinthiran has published three books of poetry: his latest, Avidya, won the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He is also a memoirist, editor, and literary critic: his other books include Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir and Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics. Born in Leeds to Sri Lankan Tamils, he teaches at Harvard University.