Being an Adivasi
About Jacinta Kerketta
Jacinta Kerketta is a poet, story writer, and freelance journalist belonging to an Oraon Adivasi community of West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. She writes in Hindi.
So far, five of her poetry collections and one diary have been published. Some of her poetry collections have been translated into foreign languages like German, Italian, French, Spanish, and many Indian languages too.
In 2014, she was given the Voice of Asia Recognition Award by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Thailand. She was a UNDP Fellow in 2014. In 2022, she was one of the 22 self-made women of India selected by Forbes India. In 2024, she received the Omega Resilience Award Fellowship in collaboration with two organizations, the Commonwealth of North America and START UP! In 2025 The Vogue India Magazine’s July-August issue published her interview.