Ashok Niyogi was born in Calcutta, India in 1955. After attending Irish Christian Brothers' Schools in India and graduating with honors in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta University, he spent more than 25 years in trade and commerce working in various parts of the world, including the former USSR, Eastern Europe and Russia.

Retired from commerce, he is now a professional poet and writer who divides his time between the US, where his daughters live, and India, where he is based in Delhi and has a timber plantation in Goa, but travels all over the country. His English is abundantly Indian (with its colonial burden) but because of his travels, the odd Russian, European and American ‘isms’ have crept in.

He has published two books of poetry in India: Crossroads and Reflections in the Dark. and one book of poems in the USA, Tentatively. He has been published extensively on-line and in print in the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.