Preeti Vangani is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers, (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize.Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission, YBCA, and The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.
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Preeti Vangani is the author of two poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers (2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner among other places. She holds an MFA (Writing) from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.
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Preeti Vangani is a poet, writer, and educator. She is the author of two poetry books: Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), winner of the RLFPA Poetry Prize. And Fifty Mothers (River River Books, 2026). Fifty Mothers was also declared a finalist in contests and reading periods by Omnidawn Publishing, Perugia Press, Noemi Press and others.
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A winner of the Foley Poetry Prize, Preeti’s poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, The Slowdown podcast, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. Her story, Work Wives, won the 2021 PEN Robert J. Dau Debut Short Story Prize, and other stories have appeared in The Rumpus, Georgia Review and Minor Literatures.
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Preeti’s work has been supported by Djerassi, Ragdale, UCross, Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and others. She is a two time recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist grant through which she facilitates workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and teaches in the program. She lives in San Francisco, California.