Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Australian artist and poet of South Indian heritage. Her poetry has been nominated for several prizes, including the Pushcart Prize, the Dai Fry Award for Mystical Poetry, the Best of the Net, and the Glass House poetry awards. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman’s Voice Journal. She is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press UK),  A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (winner of The Little Black Book Competition, Hedgehog Poetry Press UK), and three digital micro-chaps books published by Origami Poems Project (US). She lives and works in Lindfield, on traditional Gammeragal land.  Find her on X @oormilaprahlad and www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings