Nishi Pulugurtha is academic, author, poet, editor and translator. She is Head and Associate Professor in English at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata with several academic publications. Her writings include a collection of essays on travel, 'Out in the Open'; an edited volume of essays on travel, 'Across and Beyond'; three volumes of poems, 'The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems,' 'Raindrops on the Periwinkle,' 'Looking'; a co-edited volume of poems 'Voices and Vision: The First IPPL Anthology,' two collections of short stories 'The Window Sill' and 'Framed'; an edited anthology of short stories 'The Virasat Anthology of Short Stories'; an edited volume of critical essays, 'Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence'; a volume of essays written during the pandemic, 'Lockdown Times' and a co-edited volume of translated short stories from Indian languages, 'Bandaged Moments'. Her volume of personal essays is forthcoming. She has been Writer in Residence, Samyukta Research Foundation, Thiruvananthapuram. She is the Secretary of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata, Advisory Board Member of Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter and was Chief Editor of Antonym Magazine in 2025.