Dr. Sreekanth Kopuri Ph.D. is an Indian poet, Alumni Writer in Residence, Athens and a Professor of English from Machilipatnam, India. He did his PhD on the autoethnographic poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra. He presented his research papers and recited his poetry at Oxford, John Hopkins, Heinrich Heine, Caen, Gdanski, Banja Luka Universities and many others. His poems appeared in Arkansan Review, Christian Century, A Honest Ulsterman, Chicago Memory House, Two Thirds North, Heartland Review, Tulsa Review, Digging Through the Fat, Expanded Field, American Diversity Report, Plants & Poetry, The Rational Creature, Nebraska Writers Guild, Contrapuntos IX, Poetry Centre San Jose, Liquid Imaginatin, Lannang Archives, Wendpoetry, Ancient Paths Magazine, Litbreak, Wend Poetry, Synaaresis, Vayavya, A New Ulster, Bosphorous Review of Books, Antropocene Journal, to mention a few and his articles on Silence in poetry were published in various scholarly journals.. His forthcoming book From an Indian Diary is the finalist for Eyelands Book Award 2022, Athens. His book Poems of the Void was the winner of Golden Book of the year 2022. His interests are Contemporary Poetry, Silence, Ecopoetics, Autoethnography and Holocaust poetry. He lives in his hometown Machilipatnam with his mother.