Shloka Shankar is a poet and self-taught visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and myriad found poetry techniques alike. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, her poems have recently appeared in ubu., The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Angel Rust, and Heron Tree. Shloka is the Founding Editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. Her microchap, Points of Arrival, is forthcoming from the Origami Poems Project. Website: www.shlokashankar.com.