PREETI PARIKH is the author of Blue Selvage (Tupelo Press, forthcoming in November 2026), which was recently named by Debutiful as a Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2026 and a Debut Poetry Collection You Need to Read in 2026.

Preeti is a poet and essayist with a past educational background in medicine and a recent MFA from The Rainier Writing Workshop. A Kundiman Fellow and National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant award and a 2024 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award.

Preeti’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Margins, Zócalo Public Square, and other literary journals. Her writing has been anthologized in Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2021 and 2022 editions), and The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press). Preeti has been a Millay Arts Artist-in-Residence and an AWP Writer to Writer Program mentee and has received staff scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has been performed in a poetry-ballet collaboration and exhibited at the 2025 Creative Asian Society Art Exhibition. Born and raised in India, she now lives with her family in Ohio.