Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003) was born in India and graduated from Wellesley College before receiving an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She is the author of two collections of poetry, White Elephants, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, and World Hotel, recipient of the 2003 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. While house-sitting in the Chevy Chase home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, poet Jane Shore, Vazirani took the life of her two-year-old son, and then her own.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- It’s a Young Country, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010