Brooke Sahni is the author of Before I Had the Word (TRP, 2021), which won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly, Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, 32 Poems, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona.