Preeti Parikh
Preeti Parikh is a poet and essayist with a past educational background in medicine and a recent MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. A Kundiman Fellow and National Poetry Series Finalist, she is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant Award, and a Millay Arts Residency. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, performed in a poetry-ballet collaboration, and featured in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Margins, and other literary journals and anthologies.
Preeti’s book of poems, Blue Selvage, named by Debutiful as one of The Debut Poetry Collections You Need to Read in 2026, will be out in November from Tupelo Press. Born and raised in India, Preeti has now called Ohio home for nearly two decades.
Featured Book
Blue Selvage
Preeti Parikh’s debut poetry collection, Blue Selvage, is a mapping of boundaries, a (re)framing of fractured interiority, a text(ile) unfurling across shifting homelands. This formally daring, deeply embodied meditation weaves lyric, essay, documentary fragments, and historical reckoning into an exploration of skin, cloth, color, and form as living archives. Here, passion for indigo, a medical-science-informed perspective, fascination with the materiality of cloth and skin, and a journeying towards reclamation interlace with feminist inquiries and cultural examination to conceptualize the poems’ multivalent inhabitances.
Meet Preeti Parikh and get a copy of their book at the 2026 Kentucky Book Festival, Saturday, November 7, 2026, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.