Samartha Vashishtha was born June 10, 1983 at Nabha (Punjab). He published a first book of poems in English, Anhadnad, in the year 2000. A second titled Shadows Don't Live In Walls was published in 2004 by Writers Workshop, Kolkata.

His poems have appeared in some leading literary journals like Chandrabhaga (Cuttack), The Journal of the Poetry Society (India) (New Delhi), Indian Literature (New Delhi),
The Poetry Chain (Mumbai), and The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics (Kerala).