Eunice de Souza was born in Pune, India in 1940, and educated there. She
received an MA from Marquette University in Wisconsin and a PhD from Bombay in 1988. She is now a lecturer in English in St Xavier's College, Bombay. Apart from writing extensively on contemporary literature and culture, she has written four books for children, and was the co-editor of Statements (1976), an anthology of Indian prose in English. Her collections of verse are Fix (1979), Women in Dutch Painting (1988), and Ways of Belonging: New and Selected Poems (1990); the last of these was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.