Raman Mundair is a writer and artist. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, 'A Choreographer's Cartography' and 'Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves' – both published by Peepal Tree Press and 'The Algebra of Freedom,' (a play) published by Aurora Metro Press.

Her collection of short stories 'In the Light of Other' will be published in 2008. In 2007 her play 'The Algebra of Freedom' was produced to great acclaim by 7:84 Theatre Company and in 2006 she collaborated with the National Theatre Scotland Young Company and ran Mòr – A Play, A Pie, A Pint on 'Side Effects', a one-act play.

As an artist she makes work that represents text and narrative in a visual form. Her work has been exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, City Art Gallery, Leicester and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.

In 2006 Mundair was runner up in the Penguin Decibel Prize for Short Fiction.

In 2007 she was awarded the prestigious Arts Council England International Fellowship at the India International Centre in Delhi.

In 2008 she will be a Scottish Poetry Library Poet Partner for East Dumbarton and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow at the Hotel Chevillon in Grez-sur-Loing, France.

The Independent newspaper wrote in a review of her work "Raman Mundair is a rare breed: a poet whose writing works on the page and the stage. Her readings reveal the secret music of the poem . . . Mundair is literature at its best: thoughtful, provocative and sharp."