Vandana Khanna

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Born in New Delhi, India, Vandana Khanna is a writer, educator, and editor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Train to Agra, Afternoon Masala, and most recently, Burning Like Her Own Planet from Alice James Books in 2023. Her previous collections have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize, The Miller Williams Poetry Prize, the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition, and the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, New England Review, and The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.