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Jinendra Jain

Jinendra Jain

MA Creative Writing
2020 — 2023

Jinendra is a banker and writer. His fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry have appeared in Meniscus, Rattle, TEXT, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021, and The Best Asian Short Stories 2022. He has read at Poetry Festival Singapore and the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference.

A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Jinendra has worked in various trading, risk management and advisory roles for over 25 years with ANZ Grindlays, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Westpac and ING.

He is graduating with an MA Creative Writing conferred by Goldsmiths, University of London from LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, and working on his first book, a personal memoir cum spiritual travelogue set against the stunning backdrop of the Mustang Trail Race in Nepal.

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Thesis work

Jinendra’s memoir-in-progress, tentatively titled Did Not Finish?, describes his struggle with grief and injury during an eight-stage, 170-kilometre-long, high-altitude trail race through the Gaudiesque badlands of the culturally Tibetan, once-forbidden, trans-Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang, Nepal – a race that was also a pilgrimage on behalf of his late father to Muktinath, a temple town at the finish line of the race.

Published work and readings

Published works

Jain, Jinendra (2022). An Impossible Innocence. The Best Asian Short Stories 2022, edited by Darryl Whetter, Kitaab International.
Jain, Jinendra (2022). Those Days. Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021, edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agrawal, pp. 84, Hawakal Publishers.
Jain, Jinendra (2022). Turning Fifty. The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, edited by Sudeep Sen, pp. 139, Kitaab International.
Jain, Jinendra (2022). Hope’s Ghazal. The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, edited by Sudeep Sen, pp. 140, Kitaab International.
Jain, Jinendra (2021). Those Days. Rattle, Issue 73 (Fall 2021), pp. 59.
Jain, Jinendra (2021). See Like a Child; Think Like an Adult: Creating Space between Perception and Thought. TEXT, Vol. 25, No. 1 (April 2021), pp. 20. Retrieved from: http://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/23504-text-prose-april-2021  
Jain, Jinendra (2020). Where the Present Plunges Into the Future: A Trader Runs Out of Bardo. Meniscus, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (December 2020), pp. 128.

Conferences and events

November 2022. Presented a paper titled ‘Mountain as Mystic and Metaphor in Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard’ at the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference 2022.
November 2020. Presented a paper titled ‘See Like a Child; Think Like an Adult’ at the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference 2020.
August 2020. Read at Poetry Festival Singapore.