Preeti Vangani is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions, 2019), winner of the RLFPA Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poem-a-Day,The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, AGNI, and elsewhere, and in 2021 her debut short story received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers. Based in San Francisco, she teaches in the MFA writing program at University of San Francisco. (updated 4/2024)