Vikas Menon

Vikas K. Menon is a poet and playwright whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Lantern Review, burntdistrict, diode, and The Literary Review, among others. His poetry manuscript godfleshwas a finalist for the 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award and semifinalist for the Beatrice Hawley award, both from Alice James Books. His poetry has been featured in Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry and is forthcoming in The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians. He is a board member ofKundiman, the first organization of its kind dedicated to supporting Asian-American poetry and is the Resident Playwright of Ruffled Feathers Theater company.