Gurbir Singh is a poet and humanist. “Half Asleep” (2000) is his first published poetry title. He lives in Orissa, India. His writings, which include short stories, poems and reflective essays, have appeared in many national newspapers, including The Statesman, The New Indian Express and the Asian Age, and journals like The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), Sopan Step, The Kurukshetra, The Orissa Review and Scoria.