Anita Nahal, Ph.D., is a two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated (2022, 23) Indian American author-academic. She was a finalist for the Tagore Literary Prize 2023 for her fourth prose poetry book, Kisses at the espresso bar (Kelsay, 2022). Anita has one novel, four poetry collections, one of flash fiction, four for children, and five edited anthologies published. Anita’s poems have been included in over twenty international anthologies, and hundreds have been published in journals in the US, Asia, and Australia. Anita’s poem has been selected for the Polaris Trilogy, Moon project, which will be delivered to the moon in a capsule by Space X in 2024. One of her poems, “Hold on, baby, we'll soon be home,” was included as part of a video on the impact of COVID-19 produced by Doordarshan TV, Kolkota, India. Anita's poems are housed at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities initiative, “Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic. Her third book of poetry, What’s wrong with us Kali women? (Kelsay Books, 2021), was nominated as the best poetry book of 2021 for Ars Notoria. It is also a prescribed reading in an elective course at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 

Anita has been teaching and working in higher education for over forty years in the US and abroad. She is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award-winning Indian novelist, Late Dr. Chaman Nahal, and educationist, Late Dr. Sudarshna Nahal. ​For a complete bio, please contact the author.