Mia Ayumi Malhotra is a fourth-generation Japanese American poet. Her book Isako Isako was a finalist for the California Book Award and the winner of the 2017 Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She holds creative writing degrees from Stanford University and the University of Washington, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Yale Review, Indiana Review, and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience.
 

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