Saumya Malviya is a social anthropologist currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. He earned his doctoral degree from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is also a published poet in Hindi, as well as regularly translates fiction and poetry from Hindi/Urdu to English. He is currently working on an anthropological biography of Hindi poet Gajānan Mādhav Muktibodh and translating his selected writings into English. His poetry collection titled Ghar Ek Nāmumkin Jagah Hai has been published from Hind-Yugm Prakāshan Delhi in 2021.