Brooke Sahni is the author of Before I Had the Word (Texas Review Press, 2021), which won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize selected by Maggie Smith and was finalist for the Arizona and New Mexico Book Awards. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Boulevard, Verse Daily, 32 Poems and elsewhere. Her new collection of poetry, In This Distance, is available now for pre-order. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona.