Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is an Indian poet and a professor of English literature at the University of Allahabad, India.Smita Agarwal's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and the University of Kent in England.Agarwal's doctoral studies were on American poet, novelist and short story writer, Sylvia Plath. Agarwal is an editor and translator for Plath Profiles, the Sylvia Plath online journal, Indiana University, US. Books by Smita Agarwal Mofussil Notebook Contemporary Indian Poetry Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English: 53 (DQR Studies in Literature) Wish: Granting Words