Bina Sarkar Ellias is a poet, founder, editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie(an award-winning publication since 1997). Besides, she is a fiction writer, and art curator in India and overseas. Her books of poems include The Room, Fuse (which has been taught at the Towson University, Maryland, USA) in English & Mandarin, When Seeing Is Believing, Cercana Lejania/Closer Farness, in English & Spanish. Her collection of poems Song of a Rebel was launched in 2020. Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Arabic and Urdu. She received a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program 2007,  towards the project ‘Unity in Diversity’, the Times Group Yami Women Achievers’ award, 2008, and the FICCI/FLO 2013 award for excellence in her work.