Written by
Purvi Shah

Purvi Shah’s book of poems, *Terrain Tracks* (New Rivers Press, 2006), which explores migration as potential and loss, won the Many Voices Project prize and was nominated for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award in 2007. Shah, winner of the inaugural SONY South Asian Social Services Award in 2008, led a community-based anti-domestic violence organization for nearly eight years and is now consulting on the issue of violence against women, supporting the development of Kundiman (an Asian American poets organization), teaching literature at Hunter College, and working toward a second collection of poetry.