Pramila Venkateswaran

Pramila Venkateswaran is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Exile Is Not a Foreign Word (Copper Coin, 2024) and We Are Not a Museum (Finishing Line Press, 2022), winner of a New York Book Festival award. From 2013 to 2015, Venkateswaran was the poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island. She is the codirector of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival.