Aparna Mitra is an emerging poet working in Melbourne. Her poetry has twice won the My Brother Jack Awards in Melbourne. Aparna grew up in Calcutta and has worked in banking and in micro finance. When not writing, you can find her trying to coax temperamental Indian tropical plants to bloom in her suburban Melbourne garden, parenting a couple of high-strung teens and tweeting @aparnamitra0. Aparna wishes she had listened to her mother and taken those music lessons.