Dilnasheen Zarreen has completed her BA in English
Hons from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata where she was awarded the
Fr. Huart's Scholarship for Excellent Merit. Recently she has completed her
Master’s in English Language and Literature from University of Calcutta. She
has two poetry collections to her credit: Lalazar and Elysian and
Other Poems, the former released by the former Governor of West Bengal and
has been recognized by the Tati Bagh Library for Remarkable Debut in Writing.
The latter is available on Amazon and Flipkart and is now nominated for the
Sahitya Sparsh Award. Her short stories and poems have featured in Sahitya
Akademi’s Literature journal, The Apollonian, Miranda House’s
Blue Quill and various national and international anthologies. She has read
her poems at Bengal Arts and Literature Festival, ICCR Kolkata, Alliance
Française du Bengale, and Barabazar Library. Dilnasheen's area of research
expands from Postcolonial Literature to Conflict Literature and Trauma Studies.
She has presented research papers at international and national seminars hosted
by Queen’s University, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, The English and
Foreign Languages University, Jadavpur University and University of Calcutta to
name a few. Presently, she is an aspiring Ph.D scholar. Last but not the least
she is a former National and State Snooker and Billiards Champion and a Karate
Green Belt.