Shruti Chauhan Author

Shruti Chauhan is a poet and performer based in Leicester. She has won slams internationally in Chicago and Mumbai, and has performed at Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre, Rich Mix, the US Embassy’s American Centre in New Delhi, the Green Mill in Chicago, and at poetry festivals and events across the UK. In 2015 she toured Three the Hard Way – Part 2 nationally with Jean Binta Breeze MBE and Lydia Towsey. Shruti sits on the Board of Writing East Midlands, the region’s writer development agency, is an MGCfutures bursary recipient, a participant on Curve Theatre’s BAME Cultural Leadership programme and one of 200 British BAME writers featured in Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Grounds publication. In 2018, Shruti won a Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer. She also won the National Poetry Library's Instapoetry competition and her winning entry was exhibited at Southbank. Shruti has written song lyrics for the BBC documentary, My Asian Family – The Musical, and is currently developing her debut solo show, The Sky Diaries.