Chandanie Somwaru

Chandanie Somwaru (she/her) is an Indo-Caribbean woman born and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of Urgent \\ Where the Mind Goes \\ Scattered (Ghostbird Press, 2021). Her writing has been published in Poem-A-Day, Honey Literary, Solstice, SWWIM, The Margins, and other outlets. She was the first runner-up for the 2023 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. In 2024, she won a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Somwaru earned an MFA at Queens College, CUNY.