A first-generation Indian-American, Varsha Saraiya-Shah is a poet and financial professional who lives and works in Houston, Texas. Her work has appeared in Borderlands, Texas Observer, Mutabilis Press anthologies including Five Inprint Poets, University of Texas Press book, Convergence, and elsewhere. She reads her new work regularly among multi-genre writers at Archway Gallery and ekphrastic poetry at Rice Gallery, invited and inspired by new installations. She has studied with poets in various summer and fall workshops including Houston's Inprint House, NY's Sarah Lawrence College, Squaw Valley Community of Writers in California and Reed College, Oregon. [Poetry]