Anu Mahadev

Anu Mahadev is a New Jersey based poet, and a 2016 MFA in Poetry graduate from Drew University. Currently she is a Poetry Editor for Platform Review, a literary journal launched by Arts by The People, to encourage emerging writers who are local to New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York City. I am also a Poetry reader for The Adroit Journal.  She has served as Poetry Editor for The Wild Word,  Editor-in-Chief for Jaggery Lit, and Senior Editor for the Woman Inc. Her latest collection of poetry, A Mouthful of Sky ,was released in April 2022 by Get Fresh Books LLC. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, and she is an alumna of the 2023 Kenyon Writers’ Workshop (with Dan Beachy-Quick), the 2024 Juniper Summer Writing Institute (with Diana Khoi Nguyen) and the 2024 Kenyon Writers’ Workshop (with Natalie Shapero). In her spare time, she loves spending time with her family, which includes her dog, walks, music, books and mindfulness meditation.