Preeti Parikh is a poet and essayist with a past educational background in medicine and a recent MFA from The Rainier Writing Workshop. A Kundiman fellow and National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award. Preeti's poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Margins, Zócalo Public Square, and other literary journals. Her writing is anthologized in Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2021 and 2022 editions), and The Last Milkweed (forthcoming from Tupelo Press). Preeti has been a Millay Arts resident and an AWP Writer to Writer Program mentee and has received staff scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Born and raised in India, she lives with her family in Ohio. Blue Selvage will be Preeti Parikh's first published collection of poems.