Sharmila Pokharel is a bilingual poet. She has published two collections of poetry in Nepali. Her third book is a bilingual poetry collection, My Country in a Foreign Land, co-translated by Alice Major. She is a co-author of Somnio: The Way We See It, a poetry and art book published in 2015. This book has received the 2014 Cultural Diversity in the arts Project grant. She has received the 2012 Cultural Diversity in the arts Award and ENSAS Engineering Writer Award, Kathmandu, Nepal 2007. She has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and master’s degree in Sociology from Nepal. She works as a transportation technologist at WSP Canada.