Sony Dalia is an academic, poet, translator and critic. He is a Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society, Great Britain and Ireland.
Apart from 5 books of poems in English Delightful Dawn, Graceful Green, Hopping on Hope. Sparklers, and Radiant Redeemers, he published 31 books [21 edited anthologies of literary criticism and 10 literary texts translated from Telugu into English]. He is the Chief Editor of VIRTUOSO, a Refereed Transnational Bi-Annual Journal of Language and Literature in English. Vice Chairman of AESI [Association of English Studies in India] for two consecutive terms, he made presentations in International Conferences in universities in China, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, the U.K, France, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Cambodia, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Italy, Romania, Poland, South Africa and Borneo[East Malaysia].He visited Vietnam and Singapore. He lives in Hyderabad, India.