Avatans Kumar is an award-winning columnist and linguist.

Originally from Patna, Bihar, Avatans is an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught Linguistics and Hindi as a foreign language, respectively. 

Avatans received the San Francisco Press Club’s Journalistic Excellence Award in 2023, 2022, and 2021. His ‘The Flight of Deities: An Anthology of Desecration & Devotion’ was published in 2023. Avatans has also translated Prof. Subhash Kak and Ambassador Arun Sahu’s poetry collections (original English) into Hindi.