Shikha Malaviya is a poet, writer & mentor. She was born in the UK, but grew up in Minnesota and India. Her book of historical persona poetry, Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023) is a unique retelling of the life of India's first female medical doctor and the first Indian woman to study medicine in the United States. Shikha's previous book of poems, Geography of Tongues, explores the notion of place, history and legacy in immigrant lives through personal experience. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Catamaran, PLUME, Prairie Schooner, SWIMM & other fine publications. Shikha has been a featured TEDx speaker and was selected as Poet Laureate of San Ramon, California, 2016. She is co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, a mentorship-model literary press and is currently a Mosaic America Fellow and Writers Grotto member in the SF Bay area.

Other poems on the web by Shikha Malaviya:
"Where I come from"
Two poems
"Portrait of a South Asian Silicon Valley Housewife"

Shikha Malaviya's Website.

Shikha Malaviya on Twitter.

Nũr Mélange: A Ghazal Anthology
Editors: Ami Kaye
Other poems by Nũr Mélange: A Ghazal Anthology in Verse Daily:
September 18, 2024:   "Blasphemous Apostle" by Vivek Sharma
September 17, 2024:   "Good Americans" by Karen Llagas
September 16, 2024:   "Wanderlust Ghazal" by Dipika Mukherjee
September 15, 2024:   "Mis Gacelas" by Lupita Eyde-Tucker

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