Yamini Pathak

​Yamini Pathak is the author of poetry chapbooks, Atlas of Lost Places (Milk and Cake Press) and Breath Fire Water Song (Ghost City Press). Her full-length collection is forthcoming in 2025 from Milk & Cake Press. Nominated for Best New Poets and a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Global Poetry Prize (South Asia), her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sierra, West Branch, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, Tupelo Quarterly and elsewhere. She is a Poet in Schools for the Geraldine Dodge Foundation, a teaching artist at the West Windsor Arts Council, and serves as editor for Inch micro-chapbooks published by Bull City Press. Yamini has received an MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, LA and has received support from Vermont Studio Center, VONA/Voices, Community of Writers, Tin House, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. It brings her much joy to belong to the Duniya Collective, an inter-disciplinary group of BIPOC artists. Born in India, she lives with her family in New Jersey.

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Poems
https://waxwingmag.org/items/issue18/10_Pathak-Ahimsa.php

https://www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/category/by+Yamini+Pathak

https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/perimenopause-a-burning-haibun-by-yamini-pathak/

Reviews
https://sundressblog.com/2022/02/02/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-atlas-of-lost-places-by-yamini-pathak-3/
 
https://thepoetrycafe.online/2021/02/14/atlas-of-lost-places/

Interviews
Reading and conversation at the Emily Dickinson Museum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QhRuZcptZg&t=23s
 
Center Stage with Wild Word Journal: https://thewildword.com/center-stage-yamini-pathak/
 
Profile Interview with Canvas Rebel:
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-yamini-pathak/?doing_wp_cron=1733325286.5587201118469238281250

Other Links
My interview of Dan Beachy-Quick in Poets & Writers online
https://www.pw.org/content/the_ardors_of_the_world_will_speak_to_us_a_conversation_with_dan_beachyquick