"Nalini Paul is a giver both in the poetry community and on the page. She has a rare touch in writing of the Scottish countryside, with a detail and richness of observation, in language she has made her own after coming to live in Glasgow from Vancouver fifteen years ago. She brings a wide background of Canadian and American as well as British culture to play in her poetry, which she describes as 'a kind of freeze frame of the here and now.' Rich reading ahead..."
Sally Evans

"Nalini Paul is sensitive to both words and landscape in her poetry. She is alive to outer detail of vision and inward emotional understanding. Her poems are spare and delicate, yet often probe deeply into a situation. Nalini makes interesting use of her own cross cultural and national experience to set up a context for her poems. Her poem 'To a Moth', with its opening line 'There's a dead moth in my poetry book' is typically low key, but even in describing something as slight and common as a dead moth, Nalini finds her 'fingers are tinged with golden ash'. Her poems make that transformation."
Tessa Ransford

Nalini Paul was born in India - a place she was too young to remember - grew up in Vancouver, and has been living in Scotland since 1994. Her trip to India in January 2008, made possible by a Scottish Arts Council grant, has generated ideas for a book. In December 2008 she graduated with a PhD on Jean Rhys at Glasgow University. She has collaborated with artists, including as Writer-in-Residence at the Ruby Orange Gallery, Biggar; and with the artists' collective Composition, which featured exhibitions in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the publication of Leaf Fall, Seeing by Touch. Nalini was recently appointed as the George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow in Orkney, where she will be based for one year from mid-October 2009.