Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt (forthcoming 2025) and Isako Isako, California Book Award finalist and winner of the Nautilus Gold Award, Alice James Award, National Indie Excellence Award, and Maine Literary Award. Her chapbook Notes from the Birth Year won the Bateau Press BOOM Contest, and her work has been recognized internationally with the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize. She is a Kundiman Fellow and founding member of The Ruby SF, a gathering space for women and nonbinary artists.
Updated June 2023
Stories from This Author
Assemblage
Aug. 22, 2024 • Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Assemblage into motherhood…Spilling into questions of beauty…Deliverance…To Push Through…Traces of Self…birth a new narrative… There must have been a dozen words, lines, inspirations from Mia Malhotra’s pieces here that had me swooning over the potential column theme. These striking pieces feel like an open conversation on stepping into (or wanting to step into) parenthood that I have longed to continue with Mia and her poetry. We are honored and excited to feature her again on the Nikkei Uncovered poetry column …
“this distant shore…”
June 15, 2023 • Mia Ayumi Malhotra , traci kato-kiriyama
This month, we’re delighted to again present the beautiful work of poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra. There is a sweet concoction of remembering, longing, and holding space for moments to recall from the past, “the lost…,” or to save for the future. What a wondrous way to get us leaning into summer and inspired to write as the season opens us up toward the next chapter…enjoy! — traci kato-kiriyama * * * * * Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt (forthcoming …
Homage
July 20, 2017 • Mia Ayumi Malhotra , Heather Nagami , traci kato-kiriyama
Welcome to poetic homage with this month’s Nikkei Uncovered column. From Tucson, Arizona-based, Heather Nagami, and San Francisco Bay Area-based, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, we have the pleasure of hearing from two Kundiman fellow authors, who speak of the women who hold us, shape our contexts, and grip at the sensibility of our memories. Enjoy. —traci kato-kiriyama * * * * * Heather Nagami is the author of Hostile (Chax Press). A Kundiman fellow, her poems have recently appeared in Hawai‘i …
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