Smitha Sehgal

Smitha Sehgal is the author of How Women Become Poems in Malabar (Red River, 2023) and Brown God’s Child (erbacce-press, 2025). She was First Runner-Up for The Wise Owl Literary Awards (Poetry) 2025 and Featured Poet for the 2025 erbacce-prize for poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry International, the Prose Poem, ONLY POEMS, the Indianapolis Review, Outlook India, Scroll, Atrium, Magma (upcoming), and elsewhere. She specializes in commercial law and gender justice. (Updated 04/2026)