Nina Sudhakar

Nina Sudhakar is an Indian-American writer, poet and lawyer based in Chicago. She is the author of Matriarchetypes (winner of the 2017 Bird's Thumb Poetry Chapbook Contest) and Embodiments (forthcoming from Sutra Press). Her work has appeared in Midnight Breakfast, Ecotone, and Arcturus.

A Body More Than Flesh and Bone

Every morning we opened our eyes, expecting to see ourselves in [ ], the low valley of our birthplace. In other words, the beginning.