Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Isako Isako (forthcoming 2019), winner of the 2017 Alice James Award. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington, and her poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including Drunken Boat, Greensboro Review, and Best New Poets. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a founding editor of Lantern Review, she has received fellowships from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop and Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the cultivation of Asian American writing. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters.