Robin Singh Ngangom was born in Singjamei, Imphal, Manipur, in 1959. He has published three collections of poetry and his works have appeared in leading journals and anthologies in the country and abroad. He received the Udaya Bharati National Award for poetry in 1994, and the Katha Translation Prize in 1999. He teaches literature in the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, where he lives.