About

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and improv pianist who was raised in the Middle East. She holds a Masters in English, and is a member of Sydney's North Shore Poetry Collective. She was a founding editor of the Sydney based literary journal Authora Australis. Her works have been widely published in various print and online literary journals and anthologies including, Cordite Poetry Review, Bracken Magazine, Sidhe Press (Germany) and Black Bough Poetry (UK). Her poetry and art have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and multiple times for the Sundress Best of the Net Awards Anthology.

She was long listed for the Dai Fry Memorial Award for Mystical Poetry in Wales, UK, in 2022. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman’s Voice Journal and was a finalist in the Glass House Poetry Awards. She is the author of three digital micro chapbooks published by Origami Poems Project, US. Her debut collection, Patchwork Fugue, was published by Atomic Bohemian Press, UK, in February 2024. She lives and works in New South Wales on the traditional lands of The Eora Nation. Find her on Twitter:  @oormilaprahlad, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings.

Her website is at https://poetry.oormila.com