Dr. Parmit Kumar Singh

Dr. Parmit Kumar Singh alias Rifle Singh is from a beautiful village Paniyadih, which is located in Siwan district of the Indian state of Bihar. The village is famous for the Baba Jyotish Nath temple. He received his Ph.D. from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has received several awards for his poetry during his college days. He also received an award from the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs for the National Youth Parliament Competition. He was the keynote speaker to an event organized by the Bihar Jharkhand Association of New England (BJANE) on two Bhojpuri poets: Mahakavi Vidyapati and Bhikhari Thakur. He has recited his poems at the Annual India Poetry Meeting at Harvard University and the Boston Poetry Slam. He is also an active member of the “Boston Renaissance” series, which is an initiative of the Woodberry Poetry Room to promote collaborative writing. Currently, he works as a Scientist I at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA.