Born in Mumbai, Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an academician, writer, and editor. She is the sixth Poet Laureate of the City of Mississauga (2026 – 2028). She is the author of six chapbooks including Redapples falling still (Harbor Editions), Every Elegy Is a Love Poem (Broken Sleep Books), and Ancestral-Wing (Porkbelly Press). Her work has been recognized and supported by several institutions, some of which include Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Writers’ Trust of Canada, Rutgers-Camden, The Charles Wallace Trust, The Vijay Nambisan Foundation, and British Council. Her work has been widely anthologized internationally, including in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (ed. Jeet Thayil). She is one of the founding editors of Parentheses Journal.