Leeya Mehta

Bio: Leeya Mehta is a prize-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist. Her short stories have appeared in a number of international publications, including in the UK, US, Austria & India. She began her writing life with a review of Batman in the Times of India when she was fourteen, so she is very excited about the new Matt Reeves' incarnation of the winged avenger in 2022. ​Leeya’s new collection of poems is A Story of the World Before the Fence, exploring themes of blood nationalism and identity. Poems are forthcoming in a Red Hen Press anthology and the Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets. Leeya writes a popular column on the literary life, The Company We Keep and is an editor with Plume Poetry, where she features poets from Maine to Bombay. Leeya grew up in Bombay and studied at Oxford University and at Georgetown University where she was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Public Policy Review. She is currently serving on the board of the Alan Cheuse International Writer’s Center, and The Inner Loop. She hosts a reading series with The Writer’s Center as an editor-at-large with Plume Poetry. 

Events: The Cheuse Center @ The Annapolis Book Festival, DC Launch of Zein El-Amine's IS THIS HOW YOU EAT A WATERMELON? ,The Cheuse Salon: Elena Medel & Leeya Mehta in Conversation