Vasantha Sambamurti
Writer / Poet / Editor / Translator
"...intimacy and surprise... lace these poems like a shoe,
tying our attention tight and fast."
- Tobias Wray, judge of the 2021 Felix McKean Memorial Award for Poetry
"The language grabs you by the shoulders and sits the
reader down to listen." -Sy Hoahwah, judge of the 2020 Lily Peter Fellowship in Poetry
"...I gasped aloud several times reading these--the slicing-edge of the poems cut
me open and made me want to be filled with a better love." -Sarah Vap, judge of the 2020 Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Poetry
"Unflinching examination of personal and social spheres, with critical commentary on race relations." -reader for 2022 Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award
Photo: Trina Pham, https://trinapham.com/