Diane Mehta

Diane Mehta was born in Frankfurt, grew up in Bombay and New Jersey, studied in Boston, and now makes her home in New York City. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Tiny Extravaganzas (Arrowsmith, 2023) and Forest with Castanets (Four Way, 2019). Her debut essay collection Happier Far comes out with the University of Georgia Press in 2025. New work is in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and A Public Space. Her writing has been recognized by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation and the Peter Heinegg Literary Award, and fellowships at Civitella Ranieri and Yaddo. She was an editor at A Public Space, PEN America, and Guernica. Her latest project is a poetry cycle connected to The Divine Comedy. She is also collaborating with musicians to invent a new way of working through sound together and working on a long-term project with a chamber ballet in New York City.