Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages & Literature at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research interests include language documentation, writing descriptive grammars, and preservation of rare and endangered languages in South Asia. He has contributed research papers to many academic journals.

His most recent books are A Grammar of Hadoti (Lincom Europa Academic Publications, Munchen,  2012) and A Grammar of Bhadarwahi (Lincom Europa Academic Publications, Munchen, 2013), and A Grammar of Dogri is forthcoming.

As a poet, he has published more than hundred poems in different anthologies worldwide. Until recently, his poem “Mother” has included as a prologue to Motherhood and War: International Perspectives (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2014.