Preeti Parikh is a poet and essayist with a past educational background in medicine and a recent MFA from The Rainier Writing Workshop. A Kundiman fellow and National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant award and a 2024 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award.

Preeti’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Margins, Zócalo Public Square, and other literary journals. Her writing is anthologized in Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2021 and 2022 editions), and The Last Milkweed (forthcoming from Tupelo Press). Preeti has been a Millay Arts resident and an AWP Writer to Writer Program mentee and has received staff scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in India, she now lives with her family in Ohio.

Preeti Parikh’s debut collection of poems, BLUE SELVAGE, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2026.