Kinshuk Gupta is a doctor, bilingual writer, poet and columnist who works at the intersection of gender, health and sexuality. His debut book of short fiction, Yeh Dil Hai Ki Chor Darwaja, modern Hindi’s first LGBT short story collection, was published to great critical acclaim in 2023, the English translation of which would be published by Harper Collins in 2025.

He is the winner of the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Reporting (2024); Hans Yuva Katha Samman (2024); Krishna Pratap Yuva Katha Samman (2023); India Today-Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Udayiman Lekhak Samman (2023); Nayi Dhara Kavita Samman (2023); Haryana Sahitya Akademi Kahani Samman (2022); Akhil Bhartiya Yuva Kathakar Alankaran (2022); Dr. Anamika Poetry Prize (2021).

He is the Managing Editor and Fiction Editor of Usawa Literary Review and has worked as the Poetry Editor for Jaggery Lit and Mithila Review. His writing can be read at Rattle, The Caravan, Frontline, Outlook, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, Live Mint, The Federal, among others. He has been awarded the prestigious South Asia Speaks 2023 Fellowship to work on his poetry manuscript with Tishani Doshi.