C. Oulens is an emerging poet and ex-academic from India. First prize recipient of the “3rd Annual Poe-It Like Poe 2025” poetry contest, her work explores radical questions on individual and society, moments that don’t resolve, and perception before they are rendered in meaning. Her works have appeared or forthcoming in The Broken Spine, Lothlorien Journal, The Starbeck Orion, The Candyman’s Trumpet, SHINE International, TiaC, Eunoia Review, SciFanSat, PHR, The Solitary Daisy, The Wee Sparrows, 575 Haiku, Poetry Pea, among others.