“Lilac Blooms: An Original Painting” by Smitha Vishwanath

“Lilac Blooms” © 2024 by Smitha Vishwanath— SOLD!!

“Lilac Blooms” is inspired by a painting by a Russian artist, Buiko Oleg.

Smitha Vishwanath is your quintessential ‘bored’ banker turned writer. After a rewarding career of two decades in banking, she quit in 2018. Therein began her writing journey on Smitha V Pennings.

Smitha Vishwanath’s poems have found a place in several International online publications, including Thieving Magpies, Spillwords Press, MasticadoresUSA, Silverbirch Press, Borderless Journal and other noteworthy anthologies. Her poem, ‘Omid’, was nominate ‘Best of the Net’ in 2019. ‘Do you Have Dreams’ and ‘Forgotten’, written for the National Poetry Writing Month challenge hosted by Maureen Thompson, won recognition in two consecutive years, 2021 and 2022. Smitha was nominated as Author of the Month by SpillWords Press for her poem ‘Ye Birds on my Windowsill’ in May 2022. She was voted again as Author of the Month for her poem, ‘Two years since you left’ by Spillwords Press, for January and February 2023. She received the Reuel International Prize (2022) for her poetry during National Poetry Writing Month. Coming Home, her debut novel, was released in March 2023 and has been received well by readers. Before this, she co-authored a book of poems, ROADS: A Journey with Verses, in July 2019.   

Smitha currently resides with her husband in Dhaka, Bangladesh. When Smitha’s not writing, you’ll find her reading, blogging, painting, going on long walks absorbing the sights around her, sharing book reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and her blog, or just being. Her poems and writing reflect the experiences of having travelled extensively, lived in different countries and worked in a multicultural environment.

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