Ardra Manasi is a poet living in New York City. Her poems have been featured in journals and anthologies published across the US, UK, and India, including Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), Modern Literature, RIC Journal, Muse India, Parentheses Journal, Silk and Smoke, The Palm Leaf, San Fedele Press and elsewhere.

In 2020, her work was part of "IGNITE – From Within the Confines," an international online exhibition bringing together artists and poets to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2023, her bilingual poem was featured at the Jaipur Literature Festival as part of Sahitya Akademi's Writers' Shorts. She has been invited to speak and read poetry at various literary events and festivals including UNMESHA, Asia's largest international literature festival, and the International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference of New York. Most recently, her 2020 journal entries—including poems—were selected as one of 30 "Featured Journals" for the Coronavirus Journaling Project hosted by the National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C.

Ardra holds Master's degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and The New School, New York City. Beyond poetry, she is a development practitioner working at the intersection of gender and labor.