Diane Mehta was born in Frank­furt, grew up in Bom­bay and New Jer­sey, stud­ied in Boston, and now makes her home in New York City. Her sec­ond poet­ry col­lec­tion Tiny Extrav­a­gan­zas is out with Arrow­smith Press on Oct 15, 2023. Her essay col­lec­tion Hap­pi­er Far comes out in 2024. New and recent work is in The New York­er, Vir­ginia Quar­ter­ly Review, Keny­on Review, Amer­i­can Poet­ry Review, and A Pub­lic Space. Her writ­ing has been rec­og­nized by the Peter Heinegg Lit­er­ary Award, the Café Roy­al Cul­tur­al Foun­da­tion, and fel­low­ships at Civitel­la Ranieri and Yad­do. She was an edi­tor at A Pub­lic Space, PEN Amer­i­ca, and Guer­ni­ca. Her lat­est project is a poet­ry cycle con­nect­ed to The Divine Com­e­dy. She is also col­lab­o­rat­ing with musi­cians to invent a new way of work­ing through sound together.