Shilpa Kamat

Shilpa Kamat is a writer, educator, and healing arts practitioner with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She was a finalist for the 2018 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and her chapbook, Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet, was published by Newfound in 2019. Her writing is informed by ecology, global mythologies, and her diverse/intersecting identities; centralizes in-between and underrepresented experiences, and has an orientation towards healing and connectivity. Shilpa resides in the Bay Area, where she teaches writing and yoga to individuals and groups.