© Purvi Shah 2007

Purvi Shah was born in Ahmedabad, India, Purvi Shah moved with her family to the United States at two. After growing up in the South and going to school in the Midwest, she traveled to New York City where she has been for the last decade. She serves as Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, an anti-violence organization. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Descant, Weber Studies, and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (a 1997 American Book Award winner). Her first collection of poems, Terrain Tracks, by New Rivers Press is available now.

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