Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt, finalist for the Northern California Book Award and Maine Literary Award, and Isako Isako, California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry, National Indie Excellence Award, and Maine Literary Award. She is also the author of the chapbook Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Contest. Mia has received the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize, and her recent work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. A frequent musical collaborator, Mia sings in the Choir of St. Paul’s Burlingame, and her commissioned texts have been performed as choral anthems throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, where she is a founding member of The Ruby SF, a gathering space for women, transfeminine, and nonbinary artists. Mia teaches poetry in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California.