Ujjal Singha is a Sahitya Akademy prize winning poet based in Kolkata.

[1] Born in Garshimula village of Jamtara district in Jharkhand, Singha obtained his master's degree in Bengali from University of Calcutta.

He first started off as an official in a nationalised bank in Kolkata and kept on writing poetry and other literary works.

He also translated poems of French poet Franck André Jamme.

A Senior Research Fellow working on poetry and poetics by Department of Culture, and was awarded the Government of India Prize for a book written on environmental pollution.