Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian–Australian poet and visual artist. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Poetry Sydney, Black Bough Poetry (UK), and other journals. She won the Curator’s Award in the 2025 Grieve Anthology, was runner-up for the 2025 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, and took first place at the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Slam, Sydney Writers’ Festival. She is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press, 2024) and A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024), winner of the Little Black Book Competition. Her new collection is forthcoming with 5Islands Press in 2026. She lives in Lindfield, on Gammergal land. Find her on X @oormilaprahlad.
