Greater Bengaluru Area
This has been a stimulating journey. My varied communications portfolio includes advertising campaigns, art and environment projects for TV, programme management at the United Nations, science journalism at Down To Earth magazine, and dissemination activities. The first decade was spent in advertising agencies: writing copy, handling campaigns and training creative teams. An exposure to grassroots projects prompted a switch to development communications. Throughout my career, I have also contributed occasional articles to print and web magazines, writing features on issues of governance in cinema, the impact of plastics, and runaway children. Now I occupy myself with writing poetry and doing art projects. Curators of my writing: Alipore Post, Bangalore; Archives, Pune; Authors Press, India; Black Bough Poetry, Wales; Blank Rune Press, Melbourne; Brown Critique, Pondicherry; Borderless Journal, USA, Cappucino Adda, Bombay; Clarion, Delhi/Kolkata; Dark n Light Zine, Geneva, Deccan Herald, Bangalore; Down To Earth, Delhi; EKL Review, Kolkata; East India Story, Shillong; Everest, Delhi; Hawakal, Kolkata; Himal Southasian, Colombo/Kathmandu; Humanscape, Bombay; Husk, Melbourne; IDRC, Delhi; Impermanent Earth, Zurich/USA; ISEC, Bangalore; Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Bombay; KashmirLit magazine, Srinagar; Muse India, Delhi; Narrow Road Literary Journal, Lucknow; Plants & Poetry, USA; Red River Press, Delhi/Assam; Rhythm Divine Poets, Kolkata; RIC Journal, Jaipur/Paris; Sandbox Collective, Bangalore; Setu Bilingual, Pittsburg; Shot Glass Journal, Ontario; Speaking Tiger, Delhi; The Sunflower Collective, Delhi; The Alternative, Bangalore; UK Arts Humanities Research Council & Universities of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent, UK; Usawa Literary Journal, Bombay; Variety Pack, UK; Womanic, USA/India; Yuva, Bombay; YAWP little magazine, Barak Valley; Yogaclicks, Norfolk, UK; Yugen Quest Review, Bombay. Specialties: Sustainable Development, Research, Journalism, Art Education, Development Communications, Feature Writing, and Film work.
Poolside, in the Writer Monk, edition 3, Issue on Belonging. June 1st, 2026. Print. Neighborhood Watch and Jamun, two poems for YAWP little magazine, May 2026. Print. Pani Puri, in Yugen Quest Review, Cognizant Spring issue, March 2026. https://weliterarydynamic.wordpress.com/lina-krishnans-poem-in-yqr-cognizant-spring-2026/
My Father’s Sweater, an essay in Kitaab. Editor’s Pick, 2nd June, 2026. Web: https://kitaab.org/2026/06/02/essay-my-fathers-sweater/ A Garlic Pedagogy, in The Hooghly Review, June 21, 2026. Web: https://thehooghlyreview.com/a-garlic-pedagogy-by-lina-krishnan/
H is for Hawk, a poem in Plants & Poetry's Rituals and Remedies Volume 2. January 31, 2026. Print.
Bapu Walked Here. Borderless Journal, October 14, 2020. Gardens of the Dead. RIC Journal, November 2020. Termite. RIC Journal, November 2020. The scent of withdrawal. RIC Journal, March 24, 2021. Wake up Call, RIC Journal. May 23, 2021. Tamil Sikh, A Fragment of memory from 1984: An essay in Himal Southasian, June 14, 2022. Chickabiddy, Flash Fiction, in the Yugen Quest Review, June 2023. Andhiyaare, Ujiyaare; a photo essay on Kishore Kumar for From My Window, an anthology of writing and art about what kept the world going through the pandemic. Lotus Sutra, short fiction, in Yugen Quest Review, August 24, 2023. Azaan, an essay in Parcham, for the music issue guest-edited by Bhaswati Ghosh, August 2024. Best Before, micro fiction in the Yugen Quest Review. September 2024. Capital City; Migration stories from Bangalore’s hinterland. In FemAsia magazine, January 25, 2025.
In recent years, my work has moved from corporate/research-based communication to a more reflective and personal engagement with our universe. My art emerges from this. Some art can be viewed here: https://www.instagram.com/inkifix/ As an artist, I explore life from an abstract perspective [Pen and ink, also digital]. Art has also informed my calling as a poet. My paintings have found a space in books of poetry. Two in the chapbook, Small Places, Open Spaces. And one in a forthcoming anthology of poetry. Published work: Cover and inside art for Small Places, Open Spaces, a chapbook of nature verse, Blank Rune Press, Australia, March 2018. Print. The news, read by; for YAWP little magazine, December 2020. Print. Bhadrakali, a painting; for the Kali Project, an anthology of feminist poetry from India, published by Indie Blue. January, 2021. Print. of feminist poetry from India, published by Indie Blu(e). January, 2021. Print. Had a Solo Art Show at the Unity Pavilion in Auroville. December 2021. A Visual Poem by Lina Krishnan and Priyanka Sacheti, in the DarknLight magazine, April 21, 2022. Web: https://www.darknlight.com/projects/alone-together/; https://www.darknlight.com Pizza by the Bay, art and poetry in the RIC Journal, February 17, 2023. Web: https://ricjournal.com/2023/02/17/pizza-by-the-bay-lina-krishnan/ Lockdown Live: art for From My Window, an anthology about the virtual windows that kept the world going through the pandemic. Web: https://thewindowjournal.com/2023/07/01/lockdown-live/
Freedom. Peace. Poetry. Cappuccino Readings, Bombay. Curator, Anjali Purohit. August 26, 2016. Stories from my Living Room. Sandbox Collective reading, Bangalore, September 30, 2016. It's Raining Frogs in Dharamshala, WE-India Possibilities. Curator, Nabina Das. August 30, 2017. Hundred Thousand Poets for Change. Curator, Menka Shivdasani. October 26-29, 2017. Language, WE Converge. Host, Smeetha Bhowmik. October 27. At Kitab Khana, Bombay. Bandicoot Tunnels. A poem for 'Reclaimed Rows', Celebrating Women Poets; hosted by Rhythm Divine Poets, Kolkata; Women Scream International Festival of Poetry & Art 2018, March 15-31, Presidency College, Kolkata. Bombay Collective Poem. A single poem on the city by 25 chosen poets in session, in Mumbai, January 15, 2018. Curated by Vinita Agarwal. Earth Consciousness Pondicherry/Auroville Annual Poetry Festival, December 13-15, 2019. Curated by Gayatri Majumdar. On the sidelines of a poetry festival, a poem read in memory of Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki, part of a global virtual memorial event, April 16, 2020. Hosted by Ayaz Rasool Nazki. Future Tense: Hope. Poetry festival, Unity Pavilion, Auroville. 9-10 December 2021. Curated by Gayatri Majumdar. Poets Nabina Das, Lina Krishnan, and Smeetha Bhoumik on writing, rebellion and rejection | A discussion curated by Women Empowered (WE), Mumbai, on November 6, 2022. Published in The Sunflower Collective, March 12, 2023. Web: https://sunflowercollective.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-poets-nabina-das-lina-krishnan-and.html Poetry Evening at the Pondicherry Heritage Festival 2023, March 1, 2023. Curated by The Brown Critique. Defiant Daughters; Women in Indian English Poetry. A panel discussion for the Glasshouse Festival of Poetry 2024, at the Bangalore International Centre, March 24, 2024.