Born in New Delhi, India, VANDANA KHANNA is a writer, educator, and editor. Her third collection of poetry, Burning Like Her Own Planet, was recently published by Alice James Books in 2023. Her previous books have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize, The Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition. Her work has appeared in publications such as Poem-a-Day, The New Republic, Guernica, New England Review and The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.