Gauri Awasthi

Gauri Awasthi (She/her), born and raised in Kanpur, India, is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in New York City, where she drinks too many iced lavender lattes. She has won fellowships from Yaddo, Hambidge Center, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Djerassi, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her writing has been published in Best New Poets 2023, Quarterly West, Notre Dame Review, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, and others.

Q&A with Saba Keramati, author of Self-Mythology

I try very hard to make the English language sound beautiful. But in doing so, I can’t ignore how language (and yes, even poetry) can also be made odious, or how eloquence can be used for malintent.

Q&A with Natasha Rao, author of Latitude

Many of the poems in the collection deal with guilt and shame because, for me, those are often the emotions that spur a poem and make me feel I need to write.