SWWIM Poetry: Vandana Khanna & Nicole Callihan

Join us for a poetry reading with Vandana Khanna and Nicole Callihan at The Betsy Hotel. Hosted by SWWIM as part of an ongoing series.

ABOUT VANDANA KHANNA: Born in New Delhi, India, Vandana Khanna is a writer, educator, and editor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Burning Like Her Own Planet (Alice James Books, 2023). Her previous collections have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize, The Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Guernica, and The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.

ABOUT NICOLE CALLIHAN: Nicole Callihan was born in Hickory, North Carolina in 1974 and raised in the Carolinas, South Dakota, and finally, Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1995, she received a BA from University of Oklahoma and went on to study at New York University where she received an MA in Poetry in 1998 and a MFA in Fiction in 2005.

Callihan is the author of This Strange Garment (Terrapin, 2023); the dual language collaboration, Translucence, with Samar Abdel Jaber (Indolent, 2018); SuperLoop (Sock Monkey, 2014); and two collaborations with Zoë Ryder White, ELSEWHERE (Sixth Finch, 2020) and A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2015) which won the 2015 Baltic Writing Residency Prize.

Host or Publisher The Betsy Hotel