Footprints of Fire: The Black Eagle Book of Modern Odia Poetry

Educated at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Allahabad University, Jayasingh is a celebrated Odia poet and a critic of eminence who writes both in Odia and English with equal ease and flourish. He has published seven volumes of poems in Odia, besides five volumes of poetry in English translation. His critical book, Door to Despair; Modernism in Odia Poetry, has been published by Authors Press, New Delhi. He has received several state and national level literary awards. His poetry has been widely translated into English and several Indian languages. An academician by profession, Jayasingh has served in several senior academic and administrative positions under Government of Odisha. Now he lives with wife, Indira, at the pilgrimage city of Puri in Odisha, India.