Akif Kichloo

Akif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016). A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.

Akif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Post and The Wire. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Glass, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.

Amidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world. You can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest or Twitter @akifkichloo

Books by Akif Kichloo