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Diane Mehta

Diane Mehta
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in Bombay and New Jersey, Diane Mehta studied with Derek Walcott and Robert Pinsky in the 90s and has been an editor at PEN America’s Glossolalia, Guernica, and A Public Space. Her debut poetry collection Forest with Castanets was published by Four Way Books in 2019. Her book about writing poetry was published by Barnes & Noble books in 2005. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


How Visions of Freediving Helped Diane Mehta Finish Her Novel

The Author of "Happier Far" Reflects on Racism and the Religious Experience of Underwater Immersion
March 17, 2025  By Diane Mehta
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‘Under the Volcano,’
A Poem by Diane Mehta

From her Collection Forest with Castanets
April 19, 2019  By Diane Mehta
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