Yamini Pathak's first full-length poetry collection Her Mouth A Palace of Lamps (Milk & Cake Press) is forthcoming in October 2025. She is the author of poetry chapbooks, Atlas of Lost Places (Milk & Cake Press) and Breath Fire Water Song (Ghost City Press). Currently, she is at work on translating poems by award-winning poet Kirti Kesar from the Hindi language into English.
Yamini Pathak's first full-length poetry collection Her Mouth A Palace of Lamps (Milk & Cake Press) is forthcoming in October 2025. She is the author of poetry chapbooks, Atlas of Lost Places (Milk & Cake Press) and Breath Fire Water Song (Ghost City Press). Currently, she is at work on translating poems by award-winning poet Kirti Kesar from the Hindi language into English.
Her poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and Tupelo Quarterly among other places, and she serves as editor of Inch micro chapbooks published by Bull City Press.
Her poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and Tupelo Quarterly among other places, and she serves as editor of Inch micro chapbooks published by Bull City Press.
Yamini has an MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, LA and has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, VONA/Voices, Community of Writers, Tin House, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
Yamini has an MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, LA and has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, VONA/Voices, Community of Writers, Tin House, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
A recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship by the NJ State Council on the Arts, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and has been a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Global Poetry Prize (South Asia).
A recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship by the NJ State Council on the Arts, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and has been a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Global Poetry Prize (South Asia).
