Preeti Kaur Rajpal

Preeti Kaur Rajpal first began writing as a student of June Jordan in her Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley. Preeti's work can be found in The Sikh Review, Spook, Tupelo Quarterly, The Lantern Review, and other publications. Her poems are anthologized in The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets Speak on Faith and Spirit and the forthcoming They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. She has been a fellow with Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series, Poetry Foundation and Crescendo Literary’s Emerging Poet’s Incubator, Writing by Writers, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, Fine Arts Work Center’s Workshops, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and Kearny Street Workshop. Her work is supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation. Preeti was a 2019–2020 inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. She was a 2021 Storyknife and Anderson Center Writer-in-Residence and will be a Djerassi Artist Resident in 2022. She writes through post-memory in the shadow of historic India’s Partition and the racialization of Sikhs in the post-9/11 Global War on Terror era. Her debut poetry book, membery, explores issues of belonging, to both family and the nation-state, and will be published by Tupelo Press.