Maya Khosla is an Indian poet living in California. Keel Bone (Bear Star Press, 2003), her latest poetry anthology won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize in 2003. She is also the author of Web of Water, a creative non-fiction manuscript, and Heart of the Tearing, a chapbook collection of poetry. Her poetry has also featured in America’s Review, Permafrost, Poetry Flash, and Seneca Review. She has performed at venues such as Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival and at Headlands Center for the Arts, where she was writer-in-residence in 1998.