Mamta Sagar is a noted Kannada poet, translator and academic from Bengaluru. She has to her credit six collections of poems, four plays, several translations of poetry and prose, an anthology of column writing, a collection of critical essays, five poetry films and INTERVERSIONS, a book of collaborative poetry activities. She has been conferred with the Bhasha Bharathi Translation Award, The World Literary Prize 2024 and Karnataka Sahithya Academy’s Sahithya Shree 2024 Award.

She co-curated a poetry installation at the Piccolo Museo della Poesia, Italy, in 2020. She has facilitated numerous international poetry translation workshops and cross-cultural literary projects. Mamta is the founder-director of Kaavya Sanje, a community poetry initiative, and teaches MA, Contemporary Art Practice at the Srishti Institute of Manipal University, Bengaluru.