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Diane Mehta is the author of Happier Far: Essays (UGA Press, 2025) and two poetry collections, Tiny Extravaganzas (2023) and Forest with Castanets (2019). She has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker and many other national publications. She is poet in residence at the New Chamber Ballet in New York City.
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