Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an award-winning writer and academician with over a decade of international experience. She is the author of five collections, including Every Elegy Is A Love Poem (Broken Sleep, 2026), Ancestral–Wing (Porkbelly Press, 2024), and Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). She is the 2025 Woodhaven Artist in Residence at The University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her work has been awarded a 2025 Civic Award of Recognition by the mayor of Mississauga and a 2025 Cultural Award from Heritage Mississauga.

Her collection of poems, Hiraeth, is an honouree in the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, published as a digital and audiobook in partnership with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada. She is one of six writers whose work has been selected to be a part of Manufactured Ecosystems, led by Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs, which is a trans-disciplinary international project exploring the future of nature-based knowledge, techno-knowledge, and imagined knowledge to forecast the future of climate adaptation. Leading the biodiversity niche, she has developed a fiction piece for a future-based science fiction anthology. She has been paired with leading Canadian scientists to create biomimicry-inspired stories that explore and forecast the future of climate adaptation technologies.

Her work has been recognized and supported by several institutions including Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Writers’ Trust of Canada, The Charles Wallace Trust, The Vijay Nambisan Foundation, and Rutgers-Camden. An awardee of the distinguished GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second Master’s degree in English literature from The University of Plymouth, UK in 2016-17. Her dissertation concentrated on a comparative literature study through the theoretical framework of postcolonial ecocriticism. This study comprised of the fiction and nonfiction of Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh.

Her work has been widely anthologized internationally including in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (ed. Jeet Thayil). She volunteers in the Nominating Committee of The Writers’ Union of Canada. She is one of the founding editors of Parentheses Journal, which won a Pushcart Prize.