Debmalya is a writer currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program in 2025. He is the winner of the Verve Poetry Competition (2026), was a runner-up for the UK Poetry Coaches Slam (2025), and was a finalist for the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize (2025), Grouse Grind Lit Prize (2025), Osmosis Poetry Prize (2025, 2026), Sweet Literary's Poetry Prize (2024), Sophon Lit's Poetry Contest (2024), and the Briefly Write Poetry Prize (2024). 

His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Wildness, Chestnut Review, South Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologised in The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2023, 2024), the Propel Anthology, and the Vervacious Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, for the Pushcart Prize, and for Best of the Net. He was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition in 2026.

He is a Poetry Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine. Previously, he was a poetry reader for Verdant, a Toronto-based literary journal. He writes a cultural column for Indigenous. 

When not writing or doing maths, he likes to read, play an instrument, or confabulate with birds in a park.