Shilpa Kamat

Shilpa Kamat is a poet and writer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and a BA in English from Carleton College. Her Middle Grade novel-in-verse, Braid by Braid, will be published in 2027 by Knopf Books for Young Readers, and her literary writing has been published by numerous magazines. Her chapbook, Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet, was a  finalist for Newfound's Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. Shilpa has taught creative writing for years, most recently with Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley. You can read more about her work at shilpakamat.com.