Shruti Chauhan – Delhi Poetry Slam

Shruti Chauhan

Shruti Chauhan is an award-winning British Indian poet, performer and BBC radio presenter. The Shruti Show airs across the East Midlands and her podcast, Mission Curry, is on BBC Sounds. She has performed at Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre, TEDxLeicester, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Rich Mix, the US Embassy’s American Centre in New Delhi, the Green Mill in Chicago and widely across the UK. Shruti was voted Best Spoken Word Performer at the 2018 Saboteur Awards and won the National Poetry Library's Instapoetry competition the same year. Shruti wrote the song lyrics for the BBC Four documentary, My Asian Family – The Musical (2018), directed by BAFTA award-winning Brian Hill as part of the BBC's Big British Asian Summer season. Her pamphlet, That Which Can Be Heard, is published with Burning Eye Books.

Shruti's work has been featured as a special highlight in Across Latitude & Language, an international anthology published by Delhi Poetry Slam showcasing some of the finest contemporary poetry from around the world.

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