What’s wrong with us Kali women?

Anita Nahal, Ph.D., is a professor, poet, flash fictionist, children's book writer, recent novelist, and very recent short film maker. Finalist, Tagore Literary Prize, 2023, for her poetry book, Kisses at the espresso bar (Kelsay Books, 2022), and nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize (2022, 2023), Anita won the Nissim Prize for Excellence in Literature for her poetry-prose novel, drenched thoughts in 2024. Her third poetry collection, What’s wrong with us Kali women? (Kelsay Books, 2021), is mandatory reading at Utrecht University.  Anita has one novel, four poetry collections, one of flash fiction, four for children, and six edited anthologies published. Anita’s poems have appeared in numerous journals in the US, UK, Asia, and Australia and anthologized in many collections, including The Polaris Trilogy (2024), The Best Asian Poetry (2021-2022), Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2021) and in the Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets, released by India’s Academy of Letters—the