Ramola D is a fiction writer and poet from India, living and writing in the US. Her first collection of short fiction Temporary Lives won the 2008 AWP Grace Paley Award in Short Fiction. Her first poetry collection Invisible Season won the Washington Writers' Publishing House Award in 1998. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in various journals including Prairie Schooner and Green Mountains Review. She is the recipient of a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts poetry award. "