Shivani Mehta was born in India and grew up in Singapore. She moved to New York to attend college and subsequently, law school. A recovering attorney, she is the proud mother of 2-year old twins who, fortunately, sleep long enough to allow her to write prose poems. She lives near Los Angeles with her husband, children, dog, two cats, and several fish. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Midwest Quarterly Review, Hotel Amerika, the Prose Poem Project, Mudfish Magazine, Fjord’s Review, Coachella Review, the Normal School, Generations Literary Journal, among others. One of her poems was a winner in Narrative Magazine’s annual poetry contest in 2011. Shivani’s book of prose poems, Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded, is now available from Press53. http://www.press53.com/BioShivaniMehta.html