Hardarshan Singh Valia is an earth scientist by profession, based in USA. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Wards Literary Journal, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, Poetic Medicine, Who Writes Short Shorts, Dove Tales – Writing for Peace- an anthology, Pages Penned in Pandemic – A Collective, Caesura, Sage-ing, Literary Veganism, COVID tales journal, Poetry and Covid, Nightingale & Sparrow, Jerry Jazz Musician, Tribune India, Sikh Review, SikhNet, Huffington Post, Northwest Indiana Times, and in books such as Diamonds-75 Years of Indiana Poetry (ISFPC2017), and Undeniably Indiana (Indiana University Press, 2016).