Nandini Sahu

Nandini Sahu (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian poet and creative writer.

In 2025, she is the Vice Chancellor, Hindi University, West Bengal. She is also Ex-Director, School of Foreign Languages and professor of English at Indira Gandhi National Open University [IGNOU], New Delhi. Her areas of research interest cover Indian Literature, New Literatures, Folklore and Culture Studies, American Literature, Children’s Literature and Critical Theory. She is the Chief Editor/Founder Editor of Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Language(IJLL), and Panorama Literaria, both bi-annual peer-reviewed journals in English. She is also professor of English at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India. She has written several books including poetry in English. Her poetry has been published in India, US, UK, Africa and Pakistan. She has won three gold medals in English literature and also the award of All India Poetry Contest in 1993 at Saint Xavier College, Ranchi and Shiksha Ratna Purashkar. She is also editor in chief of Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Language

Early life Sahu was born on 23 July 1973 in G. Udayagiri in Orissa, India. Her parents were teachers in Indian local schools. She and her five sisters grew up in an obedience life. She has also attended national seminars.

Literary career Sahu has written several books including poetry collections. Her writings are based on the subjects of Indian-English Literature, American Literature, English Language Teaching (ELT), Folklore and Culture Studies and also Children's literature. The Hindi Translator Dinesh Kumar Mali had translated her poetry Sita in Hindi, her representative poems as well as her stories. She has designed and developed programmes on Folklore and Culture studies for IGNOU.

Selected works The Other Voice, a collection of poems, 2004 Silver Poems on My Lips, 2009 Sukamaa and Other Poems Published by The Poetry Society of India, Gurgaon Suvarnarekha : An anthology of Indian women poets Sita (A Poem) Dynamics of Children’s Literature Zero Point Re-reading Jayanta Mahapatra: Selected Poems_ सीता महाकाव्य: हिन्दी अनुवाद_ A Song Half & Half_ Shedding-Metaphors_ Medusa (2025)

Critical books Recollection as Redemption, 2004 Folklore and the Alternative Modernities(Vol I & II), 2012