Poorna Swami is a writer, translator, and choreographer from India. Her translations of Urdu women writers have received the 2023 Jawad Memorial Prize and a 2024 ALTA Emerging Translators Mentorship. As the former India editor-at-large of the translation quarterly Asymptote, she co-edited the journal’s first feature on Indian language poetry in English translation. Poorna is a PhD student in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.