R.K.SINGH
(India)

R.K.SINGH, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, India, is a university professor, who teaches English language skills. He has authored over 145 articles, 150 book reviews and 30 books, including two haiku collections, EVERY STONE DROP PEBBLE (1999, jointly with Catherine Maire and Patricia Prime) and PEDDLING DREAM (in a trilogy collection PACEM IN TERRIS, 2003). His poems have appeared in several journals, anthologies and ezines. His haiku have won Peace Museum Award from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 1999 and Certificate of Honour and Nyusen Prize in Kumamoto International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Japan, 2000. NEW INDIAN ENGLISH WRITING:AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE:R.K.SINGH (ed: I.K. Sharma, 2004) is a comprehensive research publication dealing with his poetry. Dr Singh is presently Professor and Head, Dept of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad