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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian poet (born 1956)}}<br />
{{Not to be confused with|Jaishree Misra}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2025}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Jayshree Misra Tripathi<br />
| image = Jayshree Misra Tripathi.jpg<br />
| caption = Tripathi in 2022<br />
| other_names = Jayshree Tripathi<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1956}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Odisha]], India<br />
| education = * [[Delhi University]] (Master of arts)<br />
* [[National Law School of India University]] (Postgraduate Diploma in Human Rights Law)<br />
| occupation = Writer, educator and poet<br />
| years_active = 1983 – 2015<br />
| known_for = [[Women’s empowerment]]<br />
| notable_works = ''[[The Other Side of Diplomacy]]''<br />
}}<br />
'''Jayshree Misra Tripathi''' (born 1956) is an Indian poet, short story writer, and educator known for her works exploring cross-cultural experiences, women’s voices, and human resilience. She writes in English, drawing from her global experiences as a former diplomatic spouse.<br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
Born in [[Odisha, India]], Tripathi completed her M.A. in English from [[Delhi University]] in 1978. She later earned a Postgraduate Diploma in [[International human rights law|Human Rights Law]] from the [[National Law School of India University]] in 2001. Her early career included brief stints in print media during the 1980s.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Tripathi |first=Jayshree Misra |title=Reflections on a Collaborative Novel by Nine Authors |url=https://thepunchmagazine.com/author/jayshree-misra-tripathi |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=thepunchmagazine.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=14 October 2021 |title=JAYSHREE MISRA TRIPATHI |url=https://kalingaliteraryfestival.com/speakers/jayshree-misra-tripathi/ |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=Kalinga Literary Festival |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
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Tripathi’s writing centres on the silenced voices of women and cross-cultural narratives, influenced by her nomadic life.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Mohapatra |first=Himansu S. |date=27 February 2021 |title=An Odia Woman Writer's Voyage In And Out |url=https://odishabytes.com/an-odia-woman-writers-voyage-in-and-out/ |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=Odisha Bytes |language=en-GB}}</ref><br />
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She has been an educator for many years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tripathi |first=Amrita |date=2016-05-27 |title=India's diplomatic spouses: The dynamic women behind the exotic facade |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/features/indias-diplomatic-spouses-dynamic-women-behind-exotic-facade-43924 |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=The News Minute |language=en}}</ref><br />
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During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] her poems examined the uncertainties of the era.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 May 2020 |title=Lockdown verse: Jayshree Misra Tripathi and Priya Sarukkai Chabria share their poems |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/lockdown-verse-jayshree-misra-tripathi-and-priya-sarukkai-chabria-poems-6402905/ |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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Tripathi has contributed to [[Huffington Post India]], [[News18 India]], and [[Odisha Bytes]], with her works reviewed in the ''[[Sahitya Akademi]]’s Journal of Indian Literature''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jayshree Tripathi |url=https://delhipoetryfest.org/member/jayshree-tripathi/ |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=Delhi Poetry Festival 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> <br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Tripathi incorporates her [[Madden (surname)|maiden surname]], Misra, in her writing as the eldest of five daughters.<ref name=":3" /><br />
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Tripathi has lived in diverse cultures for over thirty years. Her late husband was a career [[diplomat]] in the [[Indian Foreign Service]]. She resides in [[Delhi]] following his retirement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tripathi |first=Amrita |date=27 May 2016 |title=India's diplomatic spouses: The dynamic women behind the exotic facade |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/features/indias-diplomatic-spouses-dynamic-women-behind-exotic-facade-43924 |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=The News Minute |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Jayshree Misra Tripathi {{!}} Guest Author at OdishaTV |url=https://odishatv.in/author/jayshree-misra-tripathi-16391 |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=Jayshree Misra Tripathi {{!}} Guest Author at OdishaTV |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><br />
==Further reading==<br />
* [[Indian English literature]]<br />
* [[Women writers]]<br />
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== Selected works ==<br />
* {{cite journal |last=Tripathi |first=Jayshree Misra |date=2002 |title=My Distant Aunt... and I |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778010222183116 |journal=Violence Against Women |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=399–402 |doi=10.1177/10778010222183116 |issn=1077-8012 |access-date=2025-06-12|url-access=subscription }}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Tripathi |first=Jayshree Misra |title=Dilemmas & scattered weaves : musings in narrative verse & flash vignettes of travels through the diaspora |publisher=Quills Ink Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=978-93-84318-38-3 |publication-place=New Delhi, India |oclc=930864506}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=TRIPATHI |first=Jayshree MISRA |title=What Not Words Short Stories: Short Stories Set in India and the Diaspora |date=2018-12-20 |publisher=Authors Press |isbn=978-1-7919-2532-1}}<ref>Review of ''What Not Words Short Stories''<br />
*{{Cite journal |last=Sarma |first=U Atreya |date=2020 |editor-last=Tripath |editor-first=JayshreeMisra |title=A Fictionalised Memoir with an Exotic and Diplomatic Touch |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27267058 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=64 |issue=5 (319) |pages=184–186 |jstor=27267058 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref><br />
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* {{Cite book |last=Tripathi |first=Jayshree Misra |title=Trips And Trials: A Selection of Poems and Songs |publisher=PepperScript |year=2018 |isbn=9789384411534}}<ref>Reviews of ''Trips And Trials''<br />
*{{Cite journal |last=Dimri |first=Jaiwanti |date=2019 |editor-last=Tripathi |editor-first=Jayshree Misra |title=Facing the World Through Words |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27276753 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=63 |issue=6 (314) |pages=231–233 |jstor=27276753 |issn=0019-5804}}<br />
*{{Cite web |last=Quraishi |first=Humra |date=2019-01-16 |title=INTENSE VERSE LEAVES IMPRINT ON THE SOUL {{!}} Tehelka |url=https://tehelka.com/intense-verse-leaves-imprint-on-the-soul/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=tehelka.com |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite book |last= |first= |title=[[The Other Side of Diplomacy]] |publisher=Westland Non-Fiction, an imprint of Westland Books, a division of Nasadiya Technologies Private Limited |year=2025 |isbn=978-93-6045-989-5 |editor-last=Tripathi |editor-first=Jayshree Misra |publication-place=Chennai |oclc=1506115546}}<ref name=":0">Reviews of ''The other side of diplomacy''<br />
* {{Cite web |title=Book Review: The Other Side of Diplomacy by Jayshree Misra Tripathi – Asian News from UK |url=https://asianlite.com/2025/lite-blogs/book-review-the-other-side-of-diplomacy-by-jayshree-misra-tripathi/ |access-date=8 April 2025 |language=en-US}}<br />
* {{Cite web |last=Kissu |first=Sagrika |date=28 February 2025 |title=This event about diplomacy wasn't about ambassadors. Their spouses were the stars |url=https://theprint.in/feature/around-town/this-event-about-diplomacy-wasnt-about-ambassadors-their-spouses-were-the-stars/2514238/ |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}<br />
* {{Cite web |last= |first= |date=17 February 2025 |title=Westland Books is all set to release Jayshree Misra Tripathi's book The Other Side Of Diplomacy on the unseen lives of Diplomatic Spouses. |url=https://www.cityairnews.com/content/westland-books-is-all-set-to-release-jayshree-misra-tripathis-book-the-other-side-of-diplomacy-on-the-unseen-lives-of-diplomatic-spouses |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=City Air News |language=en}}<br />
* {{cite web |last=Datta |first=Vikas |date=2025-03-06 |title='JFK, mass cooking, and fashion fiascos': The colourful but exacting lives of Indian diplomatic spouses (Book Review) |url=https://ianslive.in/jfk-mass-cooking-and-fashion-fiascos-the-colourful-but-exacting-lives-of-indian-diplomatic-spouses-book-review--20250306133855 |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=IANS News}}</ref><br />
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