Ami Patel (she/her) is a queer, diasporic South Asian poet and young adult fiction writer. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Tin House YA Fiction alum, and an IPRC 2023-2024 re/source resident. Ami’s poetry is published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Moss, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, and others. She is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient.