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Anita Nahal

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https://www.anitanahal.com/

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Poetry, Children's, Fiction

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Anita Nahal Arya, Ph.D., is an educator and writer. She has worked in higher education, both in teaching and administration, at various universities for over thirty years. She's been a Fulbright scholar and an NEH fellowship awardee among other laurels in her academic career. She has published, presented papers and seminars, and created numerous workshops in her discipline of history.

On the creative side, Anita is a poet, novelist, flash fictionist, and children's book writer. A two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated Indian American author. she won the Nissim Prize for Excellence in Literature for her poetry-prose novel, drenched thoughts in 2024. Anita was a finalist for the Tagore Literary Prize in 2023 for her fourth ekphrastic prose poetry Anita Nahal Arya, Ph.D., is an educator and writer. She has worked in higher education, both in teaching and administration, at various universities for over thirty years. She's been a Fulbright scholar and an NEH fellowship awardee among other laurels in her academic career. She has published, presented papers and seminars, and created numerous workshops in her discipline of history.

On the creative side, Anita is a poet, novelist, flash fictionist, and children's book writer. A two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated Indian American author. she won the Nissim Prize for Excellence in Literature for her poetry-prose novel, drenched thoughts in 2024. Anita was a finalist for the Tagore Literary Prize in 2023 for her fourth ekphrastic prose poetry collection, Kisses at the espresso bar (Kelsay, 2022). Her third prose poetry collection, What’s wrong with us Kali women? (Kelsay, 2021), was nominated by Cyril Dabydeen, poet laureate emeritus, Ottawa, Canada, as the best poetry book, 2021, for British Ars Notoria and is mandatory reading in a multicultural society course at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her novel, drenched thoughts is also prescribed in the same course and university.

Anita has one novel, four poetry collections, one of flash fiction, four for children, and five edited anthologies published. Anita’s poems have appeared in numerous journals in the US, UK, Asia, and Australia and anthologized in many collections, including including The Polaris Trilogy (24), The Best Asian Poetry (21-22), Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2021) and Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets, the latter released by India’s Academy of Letters—the Sahitya Akademi, 2023. Her poems are also housed at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities Initiative. One of her poems, “Hold on baby, we'll soon be home,” was included as part of a video produced by Doordarshan TV, Kolkata, India.

Recently Anita ventured into short filmmaking on her poems, and her first short, “Clubs my sinful dance muse,” was awarded the Best Super Short Film Award by the Five Continents International Film Festival, Venezuela (August 2024). It was also screened at the Alibag and Goa Short Film Festivals in India in 2024. Anita is the secretary of the Montgomery Chapter, Maryland Writers Association, and former editor of the newsletter, Poetry Society of Virginia. She is also an active member of the Northern Virginia Writers Club and the Poetry Society of Virginia. Anita is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award-winning Indian novelist and professor, Late Dr. Chaman Nahal, and educationist Late Dr. Sudarshna Nahal. She teaches at a university in Washington D.C. ...more

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Average rating: 4.92 · 13 ratings · 6 reviews · 15 distinct works

	What's Wrong with Us Kali Women? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drenched Thoughts (A Novel) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animals: Prose Poems on Sentiency, Decency and Indecency it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pixie Dust & All Things Magical: Global Poetry in English 2022 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hey…Spilt milk is spilt, nothing else (Poems), 2018, 124 pp. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life On The Go: Flash Fictions from New Delhi to America (Vol.I), 2018, 84 pp. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kisses at the espresso bar: ekphrastic prose poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cashew, Vashew and Other Nursery Rhymes by Anita Nahal, Anjali Bhardwaj (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earth Fire Water Wind by Anita Nahal, Roopali Sircar Gaur 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Poems from Around the World You May Not Have Heard! by Anita Nahal, Meenakshi Mohan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars