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Siddhartha Menon has worked in various capacities with schools run by the Krishnamurti Foundation India, for more than thirty years. He is an alum of one of these schools and went on to study English Literature at Delhi University. It was while working at a small rural school near Uttarkashi in the late 1990s that he began to write poetry more seriously, and his first book Woodpecker (Sahitya Akademi, 2010) collects poems from this period. Subsequently he has published four further collections. His poems have appeared in various journals and in the following anthologies: Both Sides of the Sky: Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English, These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry and Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing. He is currently based in Bengaluru.