Jyotsna Milan (19 July 1941 – 4 May 2014) was an Indian novelist, short story writer, poet and editor.
[3][4] For at least sixteen years Milan was the editor of Anasuya, a journal published by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA).
[6] Her poem "Woman 2" was included in The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994), translated from Hindi,[7] and in In Their Own Voice: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets (1993) together with her poem "Wind-tree".
[2] While Milan did not consider herself a feminist poet, scholar Lucy Rosenstein observes that "woman's experience is unmistakably the prism of her creativity".
[1] The title of Milan's 1989 poetry collection Ghar Nahin translates to "Not a Home" in English, and Rosenstein notes that many of the poems in this collection relate to the theme of the confinement or imprisonment of women within the home.