Bibhusha Rai 

Bibhusha Rai is a writer and researcher from Darjeeling. She holds a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi (Hindu College and Lady Shri Ram College). She was a research fellow for the Confluence Collective's project 'Darjeeling Himalayas-Stories from Within'. She worked on Darjeeling’s Ringtong tea estate in collaboration with a photographer, building a gendered narrative centering the overshadowed everyday mundane lives of women tea workers. She also illustrates and writes poetry on the intersection of food and identity. In 2022, she was the second prize recipient in the national Wingword Poetry Prize for the poem Darjeeling Tea.