Kandala (she/her) is a writer, qualitative researcher and teaching artist from New Delhi, India. She is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a Dietrich fellow.

Kandala holds a joint Masters degree in Human Rights Practice from the Universities of Gothenburg, Roehampton and Tromsoe. She has worked on gender and development issues in India for over a decade.

Kandala’s poems appear in Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Southeast Review, and The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, among other places. Her writing has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers and Hudson Valley Writers Center.