Aditi Rao is a writer, educator, and dreamer. Passionate about peace education, Aditi has worked extensively in the youth development and social change arenas, particularly in examining the role of the arts in social change. Aditi’s poetry has appeared in Four Quarters magazine, Muse India, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and other publications. Her essays have been featured in People Building Peace 2.0 (published by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict), Moments that Speak: Images and Stories of Connection (published by the Earth Charter Initiative) and InfochangeIndia. Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Fingers Remember, was released by Yoda Press in November 2014. Winner of the 2011 Srinivas Rayaprol Prize for Poetry and the 2013 Toto Funds the Arts Creative Writing in English Award, Aditi currently lives in New Delhi, where she works as a consultant for non-profit organizations in the field of education for peace, facilitates creative writing and research writing workshops, and carves out time for her twin passions of poetry and pottery.
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