Vaishali Paliwal

Vaishali Paliwal is a poet and artist from India currently residing in Los Angeles. She likes to mostly spend her sunrises and sunsets in her urban garden and aspires to be a fulltime farmer, anthropologist and filmmaker in next years. In between her very different worlds of arts and corporate, with a city body carrying a heart that years for rural living, she finds her poetry, abstract paintings, embroidery and teachings of Advaita Vedanta as the best mediums to settle her giant rifts. Her poetry chapbook ‘Lion’s Tooth On Migrating Chests’ was published by The Soap Box Press in 2018. Some of her other work has appeared in Gone Lawn, Platform Review, Genre Urban Arts, Kitaab, Indian Periodical, Peeking Cat, Eunoia review, Somnia Blue and Thirty West Publishing house. You can reach her at paliwalvaishali@gmail.com.