Aryanil Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, India a year after Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky left the city in 1963 after a prolonged 15 months stay. He grew up with lingering memories of the Bangladesh war (1971), curfew-ridden cities and color mosaics in art classes. He writes in Bengali while constantly translating and transcreating them into English. Featured in parallel literary movements, published widely in Bengali poetry circles, his first collection KHELAR NAAM SABUJAYAN (The Greening Game) was published in the Calcutta International Book Fair during Spring 2000. Aryanil migrated to the United States in 1995. An engineering software writer by profession, he works and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Aryanil edits KAURAB, the only Indian Poetry Magazine on the worldwide web at: www.kaurab.tripod.com