Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is a widely published and awarded Indian-Australian artist and poet with works in Cordite, Black Bough Poetry UK, The Salons, Poetry Sydney, and other publications. She has performed internationally, including at Oxford Poetry Circle, The Surrey Laureate Lounge, and Charing Cross Library, UK. She won the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Slam (Sydney Writers Festival, the 2025 Bread and Butter Slampionship at the Opera House, the 2025 Don Bank Short Fiction Cup, and the Curator’s Award in the 2025 Grieve Anthology. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press 2024) and A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (Hedgehog Poetry Press 2024, winner of the Little Black Book Competition). Her new collection is forthcoming from 5 Islands Press (2026). She is the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Woollahra Libraries. Find her @oormilaprahlad (X) and @oormila_paintings (Instagram).

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