Anamika teaches literature in English at the University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis is on the reception of John Donne across the ages. Besides eight volumes of criticism, she has published seven novels in Hindi. Three of her novels, Dus Dware ka Peenjara, Aienasaz, and Trin Dhari Oat, have won national awards. In 2020, she received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection Tokri Mein Digant. Poems from her other poetry collections, Anushtup, Khurduri Hatheliyan, Doob-Dhan, Pani Ko Sab Yaad Tha, and Band Raston Ka Safar, are on the syllabi at different universities. She is an avid translator herself and also the founding-editor of a bilingual literary journal called Pashyantee. Her essays on womanist discourse in Hindi have been translated into many languages, and she has translated the works of Rilke, Neruda, Doris Lessing, Octavio Paz, and contemporary women poets extensively.
