Shimanta Bhattacharyya was born and brought up in Shillong, a town in the north-east of India. He has been writing poetry since his school days, and he has published a collection of my poems entitled The Diviner. At present he is working on a new collection tentatively titled The Nowhere Man.

Shimanta has a Masters degree in English Literature from the North Eastern Hill University, (N.E.H.U),Shillong.  Presently, he teaches at a college in his hometown.