The Patchwork Quilt

Sunaina Jain, an Assistant Professor of English at Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College, Chandigarh, Sunaina Jain holds a doctorate in English from Panjab University, Chandigarh, Besides conducting various workshops on creative writing, and language and communication skills, she has published many research papers in national and international journals. Her poems have featured in a number of literary journals like Muse India, South Asian Ensemble, Nuances and Dialog, and international anthologies including Shout It Out (Lost Tower Publications, London, 2016), Tranquil Muse (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2018) and Aquillrelles Anthologies: Selecting the Best (USA, 2018). Her translated stories feature in the collection Vignettes (Sahitya Akademi, 2018). She has contributed chapters to The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature (2022), Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (2022) and The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (2024). Some biographical entries written by her have featured in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English (2023). She co-edited Happiness: An Eternal Quest of Being (Authorspress, 2018). She has reviewed books of various genres for Muse India, and guest- edited the special May-June 2022 issue of Muse India on “Ethics and Politics of Cultural Memory”. She has a penchant for pursuing diverse creative arts including singing, painting and cooking.