Kiran Yele is a Marathi poet, short-story writer and playwright who has also written for television, and has lived in Ambarnath, in Thane district, since 1997. His poetry is social in temper, he says, and the poem Amhi Chillar in his first collection, Chouthyanchya Kavita (2000), first made him known.
Baichya Kavita (Granthali, 2010) established him as a poet. Its poems about women began one afternoon when he watched his mother wake from a nap and search in distress for the bindi missing from her forehead, and the poet Shankar Vaidya called the book a strisukta, a women's hymn. Its sequel, Bai Bai Gosht Sang, appeared in December 2024. The story collection Morachi Bayko (Granthali, 2018) went into a second edition within the year, and its title story has been on the University of Mumbai's first-year B.A. Marathi course since 2019. Tisra Dula (Granthali, 2019) gathers stories of exhausted people whom others try to finish off.
His plays include Platform Number 9 and Bai, Ameba ani Steel Glass, three of them produced on the professional stage by 2019. The Maharashtra Foundation in the United States gave Tisra Dula its Lalit Granth award in 2020, and his earlier honours include the Dr. Anant Labhsetwar Foundation's literature award and the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh's Kathakar Shantaram award.
