In her debut book of poems, knit together with personal essays, Mehta explores her own cultural history— Indian Jainism and American Judaism—as well as her ideas about faith, feminism, and family.

Diane Mehta is the author of Forests with Castanets (Four Way Books, 2019). She has been an editor at PEN, Guernica, and A Public Space. Her poems have appeared in The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, the Common, AGNI, Subtropics, Slate, Poetry, the Southern Review, Gulf Coast, BOMB, and the Harvard Review; her reviews and articles in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly; her essays and articles in the Paris Review Daily, the Believer, the Literary Review, VIDA, and the Rumpus. Her poems have been anthologized in numerous anthologies of South Asian writing in English, including the recent HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. She lives in Brooklyn.

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