Author of the article

Sambhavi Dwivedi is an MFA candidate in fiction at NYU, where she is a Goldwater Fellow. A 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2024 Best of the Net nominee, her poetry is featured in The Westchester Review, MudRoom Magazine, Door Is A Jar, Crab Apple Literary, Parentheses Journal, and The Ocean State Review, and her criticism appears in Words Without Borders. She was a finalist for the 2024 Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest, a recipient of the Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing and a recipient of an honorable mention for the Academy for American Poets' Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize. Her work can be found at bio.site/sambhavi.