Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2025); Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest; and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. Her poems have been recognized internationally with the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize, and she has received fellowships from Kundiman and VONA/Voices of Our Nation. Mia holds creative writing degrees from Stanford University and the University of Washington, and she currently teaches poetry at Left Margin LIT in Berkeley.