An Introduction to
Linda Ashok
Linda Ashok is an Indian English poet, ex-corporate communications professional, and now a psychologist-in-training.
As an Indian poet writing English, she has been featured in numerous literary journals, awarded fellowships, and referenced in academic literature.
As an ex-corporate communications professional, she worked with Fortune 100, 500s, and SMBs for 17+ years across Kolkata, Hyderabad, & Mumbai.
As a psychologist-in-training, Ashok is in the last leg of her Masters in Psychology in Clinical from Indira Gandhi National Open University. She has exceeded 520+ hours of clinical training, therapy practicals, and research.
Linda Ashok has an active YouTube channel where she advocates for mental health, shares study and career related information, and opines on critical global and national affairs from a psychological pov.
Core Areas of Work
Poet
Linda Ashok is an Indian English Poet and published author of several works across online journals, anthologies, and books.
Publisher
Linda Ashok is the publisher of BookWryter (earlier RLFPA Editions & RL Poetry Award), first publisher of many Indian and International poets.
Educator
Linda Ashok is an educator in academic psychology helping students ace in degree and entrance examinations.
Psychologist
As a psychologist-in-training, Linda Ashok currently offers academic/career counseling and expressive creative therapy.
Explore the Advantages
of Cognitive Biases
Good Biases is an artful take on human biases that shows us how the grass is indeed greener on the other side—of our prejudices. Through cultural, social, and media anecdotes across countries and controversies, it is a grail of reasoning you deserve.
Discover Poetry in New Light
Explore the Quantum
of Everyday Life
Sharpless 29 has been Linda Ashok’s most ambitious and yet most underrated work of poetry exploring quantum concepts across Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics, via the sublime of language.
Explore Waiting
in Unrelated Places
Waiting for the Helicopter explores the concept of waiting in the perceived and the objective. Moved by the condition of a friend affected by Schizophrenia, the poems extend to question the levels of the imaginary in everyday life.
Explore How Light
Seeps into Life
Whorelight has been achieved through the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in Creative Writing, which reasons how light whores itself to rescue us from our darkness.