Nikita Deshpande is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and a new-ish twin mama. Her poetry has appeared in several magazines, including poets.org's Poem-A-Day, Only Poems, Paranoid Tree, The Prose Poem, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and in the anthology ‘The World That Belongs to Us’. She won the 2023 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize and was awarded a 2015 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship to work on her fiction. She is also the author of a novel, It Must've Been Something He Wrote, published by Hachette India in 2016.
