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. She has taught creative writing and composition in multiple settings in India and the US, including at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was nominated for the Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award.

Kandala also 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 or forthcoming in Ploughshares, Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Southeast Review, and The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, among other places. Her writing has won fellowships and support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, Sangam House International Writers’ Residency and Hudson Valley Writers Center.