Diane Mehta is a poet and writer, born in Germany and raised in India and the U.S. She's interested in ideas connected to heritage, faith, serendipity, and reason. She appreciates writing that is acoustical and focused on the way sentences overlap with lines and the rhythm shapes the line into music. Her second poetry collection comes out in fall 2023 and her historical novel, set in 1946-7 Bombay, before Partition, in spring 2024. Her collection of essays, Happier Far, comes out in 24-25. She writes poetry and essays for the New Yorker, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, A Public Space, Kenyon Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and American Poetry Review. She has received fellowships at the artist residencies Civitella Ranieri and Yaddo, and has been the recipient of a Cafe Royal Foundation award for nonfiction and the Peter Heinegg Foundation award for creative work. She is involved in a series of collaborations with musicians.