Divya Mehrish is a student at Stanford University and a writer from New York City. She has received nominations for The Pushcart Prize, The Best of the Net Anthology, and The Sonder Press’ Best Small Fictions as well as recognition from the National Poetry Competition, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Her writing appears in PANK, Arc Poetry Magazine, Sojourners, and Amtrak’s magazine The National, among others.