Bashabi Fraser, CBE, HonFASL, is an award-winning poet, children’s writer, editor and academic. She was declared an Outstanding Woman of Scotland by the Saltire Society in 2015. Bashabi has authored and edited 24 books, several academic and creative articles and been widely anthologised as a poet. Her recent publications include Patient Dignity (2021) and Rabindranath Tagore (2019). She is the Chief Editor of the international, peer-reviewed e-journal Gitanjali and Beyond, and sits on the Editorial Board of Writers Mosaic. Bashabi is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs). She is also an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Vice President of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.