Anita Nahal is an Indian American poet, flash fictionist, children’s writer, columnist, and professor. Anita has three books of poetry, one of flash fictions, four for children and three edited anthologies to her credit. A fourth edited anthology of poems is set for release in Spring 2022. Her latest released poetry book is, What’s wrong with us Kali women? (August 2021). Her fourth book, Kisses at the espresso bar is due for release in mid 2022, also by Kelsay Books. Anita’s poems and flash fictions are found in journals in the US, UK, Asia and Australia and her poems are also housed at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities Initiative. She is also a columnist with Aaduna, a New York based journal. Two of Anita’s books are prescribed in a course on multiculturalism and immigration at the University of the Utrecht, The Netherlands. Anita teaches at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC. Anita is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award winning Indian novelist, Chaman Nahal and educationist, Sudarshna Nahal. Anita resides in the US with her son, daughter in law and golden doodle girl. More on her at: https://anitanahal.