Reetika VaziraniRecipient of a 2003 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her second book, WORLD HOTEL (Copper Canyon Press, 2002), and a Barnard New Women Poets Prize for White Elephants (Beacon Press, 1996), Reetika Vazirani was educated at Wellesley College and eceived her MFA from the University of Virginia where she was a Hoyns Fellow.

She was a recipient of a Discovery/The Nation Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Poets & Writers Exchange Program Award, and the Glenna Luschei/Prairie Schooner Award for her essay, The Art of Breathing, which appears in the anthology How We Live our Yoga (Beacon Press, 2001). She was a Contributing and Advisory Editor for Shenandoah and was the guest poetry editor of two issues. She was a Book Review Editor for Callaloo and a Senior Poetry Editor of Catamaran, a journal featuring work by artists from South Asia.

Born in India in 1962 and raised in Maryland, she had served as writer-in-residence at The College of William and Mary and part of the core faculty of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops. Reetika Vazirani died on July 16, 2003. Read More Read Less