Shloka Shankar is a poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, Shloka is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. She is the author of the microchap Points of Arrival (Origami Poems, 2021), the full-length haiku collection The Field of Why (Yavanika Press, 2022), and co-author of the haiga anthology, living in the pause (Yavanika Press, 2024). Website: www.shlokashankar.com