Dr. Sweta Kumari (Gold Medalist, M.A. & Ph.D., UGC-NET, English), born in Bihar, India, she grew up amid folk traditions and community narratives that nurtured her sensitivity to words, memory, and human experience. This early grounding continues to shape her voice as a bilingual poet, independent researcher, film scholar, editor, interviewer and cultural activist. Her family being progressive, nurturing, and quietly resilient remains the emotional anchor of her journey. The wisdom of her parents, the companionship of her sisters, and the steady presence of her younger brother have shaped the confidence and clarity that define her literary voice today. Across sixteen edited published books, Dr. Kumari has contributed significantly to both creative and scholarly realms.
Her multiple edited research volumes, marking her presence in contemporary literary and cultural studies including Women and Cinema: Feminist Film Theories in Praxis (2024) and Literature and Arts for Peace and Humanity (2023). A spontaneous outpouring of poems during her college years initiated her creative path. Since then, she has written with equal ease in Hindi and English, navigating the intimate earthiness of one language and the contemplative vastness of the other. Her poetry, featured in numerous national and international platforms, explores womanhood, silence, identity, displacement, and resilience. For her, poetry is an inward illumination, “the language of the soul before it becomes speech.” In addition to her literary and academic pursuits, Dr. Kumari serves as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Interviewer of the Worldwide Professional Women Platform, Editor at The Pinnacle News Review, and Secretary and Coordinator at the Humanist of the World Organization (HOTWO), United States.
She also holds editorial roles in several Journals including INNSÆI, MatruAkshar, and Global Literati Insight, and is the Regional Director (Bihar) of the Suryodaya Literary Foundation. Her public engagements include readings and scholarly contributions across national and international forums, including SAARC Literature Festival where she has represented her work on a distinguished transnational stage. Her contributions have earned her numerous honours, among them the Nobel Laureate Kabi Rabindranath Tagore Award, Rashtriya Ratna Award, Uttar Pradesh Ratna Samman, Vivekananda Award, and several others. Deeply rooted in Indian aesthetics yet open to global thought, Dr. Sweta Kumari continues to bridge scholarship and creative expression. Through her writing, editing, and cultural work, Dr. Kumari writes to witness, to heal, and to remember, ensuring that silences find language and that stories forgotten by history rise, at last, into the light.