Listen to Vasvi Kejriwal read her poem “After My Father Died,” published in Shō No. 7 (Summer 2025). This poem was republished alongside an interview in Brooklyn Poets.
Vasvi Kejriwal (she/her) is a writer from India. She is the winner of the Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest and Spoon River Review Editors’ Prize. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and been named a finalist for the Yellowwood Poetry and Epiphany Breakout Prizes. Her writing has received support from Tin House, the Community of Writers Conference and The Watering Hole. Her poems appear / are forthcoming in Rattle, Four Way Review, Nimrod, wildness, and elsewhere. She has facilitated poetry workshops at NYU, the Emily Dickinson Museum and the Dalton School. She loves discovering the names of flowers she’s crossing paths with for the first time.