About Saraswati
Saraswati Nagpal is a Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She is an Indian poet, author, educator and performing artist, and Co-Editor at The Winged Moon Literary Magazine on Substack.
Best known for her graphic novels retelling epic Hindu myths in the female voice, Sita, Daughter of the Earth and Draupadi, The Fire-born Princess, Saraswati’s love for the ancestral and mythical spills into all her art forms. Her poetry is widely published in international journals and anthologies.
Saraswati knew she would be a writer the day of her first poetry recital at age six. She wrote poems and scripts, directed plays, and plotted novels through school and university. She has trained in the Indian classical arts of music and dance, performed and choreographed for stage and film, recorded albums as a voice artist, and taught a range of arts around the world - from literature to yoga.
Drench Me in Silver is her first collection of poetry, featuring stunning cover art work by Swapna Maini, “Daughter of the Moon”.
Saraswati has lived in the Middle East, the USA, South Africa, and India. She is currently editing her YA fantasy manuscript.
“The moments in Saraswati’s poems are tender, and the spaces, dreamy, idyllic. This is poetry of deep roots, and strong wings.”
- Mani Rao, author of So That You Know (Harper Collins, 2025)
“A luminous meditation on the sacred feminine and ancestral memory. Saraswati Nagpal’s poetry moves through landscapes both immediate and timeless, weaving myth into work of spiritual intensity. Most remarkably, this is poetry of transformative power—the promise of grace, awe, and healing.”
- Oormila V. Prahlad, author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian, 2024)
“A poetry of eras, places, and relationships; universal truths but all carrying a deeply rooted sense of belonging and of love. A dance which leaves the reader breathless at the scope and achievement of this truly magnificent work.”
– Julian Cason, Forward Prize & Pushcart Prize nominated poet.
“Drench Me in Silver submerges the reader in ritual, belief and quiet blessing. Gentle and intricately examined, these poems are gifted as a sensation on skin, cinematic and embodied. A feminine / goddess thread of ancient grace and wisdom flows through these landscapes and intimate portraits of place and love, their lyrical phrasing a balm for a hectic world. Bathe in liquid light, and join a sensuous river of time, Saraswati Nagpal as your guide.”
– Marcelle Newbold, Poet & Editor
“Drench Me in Silver is a lyrical journey through myth, everyday events, and migration. Saraswati Nagpal’s poems shimmer with ancestral echoes, feminine strength, and sensory beauty, offering to readers a tender homage to mothers, lands lost and found, and the stories that shape us.”
– Kavitha Chinnaiyan, award-winning author of Shakti Rising (Non-Duality Press, 2017)
“Saraswati Nagpal’s poetry dwells in those places where the natural world, a continent of memories, and an atlas of texture and colour flourish as one undisturbed epoch. This collection draws its most assured, moving portraits when treading the contours of ancestry, the tragedies of homelands lost and the chai-laden joy in new homelands."
– Siddharth Dasgupta, author of All These Streets We’ve Known By Heart (Red River, 2022) shortlisted for the Tagore Prize
