[1] Writing about Sarukkai Chabria's work, the Indian poetry scholar, Bruce King, said: "...she is a highly competent writer aware of form, of poetic conventions in many different language traditions, with a feeling for cadence, lineation, image, compression and sound.
Priya Sarukkai Chabria studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, and went on to secure a degree in Arts at St. Xaviers College in Mumbai.
This work, as per Sarukkai Chabria's interview in the Hindustan Times "retained the ideas and feelings of the original but pared and updated the language while arranging the words more freely on the page"[4].
[6] Chabria is working on a memoir based on her recollections of her family accessed through a series of photographs reconstructed in words.
The goal is to "reclaim my childhood and teenage years, re-establish relationships with elders... and revalidate my existence as a loved member of a family"[7].
Besides writing, Chabria has also presented her work and availed residencies at Writer’s Centre, Norwich, Sun Yat-sen International Writers Program, Guangzhou, Commonwealth Literature Conference, Innsbruck, Alphabet City, Canada, Frankfurt Book Fair, UCLA, Jaipur Literature Festival, and Indian Institute of Advanced Studies.
She has curated seminars for Sahitya Akademi, Raza Foundation- PIC, and a module of essays on Rasa theory for Sahapedia.
Eliot Memorial Poetry Prize awardee for 2004, described Not Springtime Yet as ’The poems are passionate, sensuous and intelligent, full of energy and enterprise.
The speculative novel was said to be "the author’s attempt to position the role played by literature in this perplexed, dehumanised society".