Ananya Kanai Shah is a poet and writer. Born in Boston, she was raised in Ahmedabad, India, and has called New York, London, and San Francisco home. She holds a B.A. (Honors) in Literary Arts and Applied Math-Economics from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University.

Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Ploughshares, Indian Literature (managed by Sahitya Akademi, India's national academy of letters), Shearsman Magazine, Narrative, Gulf Coast, the offing, The Bombay Review, The Cincinnati Review, and other magazines. Her criticism has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Harvard Review, The Adroit Journal, and the Ploughshares blog. 

Her debut manuscript of poetry, Abstract Art and Other Concerns, was a finalist for the Wisconsin Poetry Series' Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes and the Fordham Poetic Justice Institute's Editor's Prize. It was also an Honorable Mention for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies' Barbara Stevens award. She was a finalist for The Sewanee Review and Narrative Magazine's annual poetry prizes, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by SUSPECT. 

She is the Events Coordinator at The Adroit Journal, and co-led the Fulham Library Creative Writing Group for over a year in London. She can be contacted at ananyakanaishah@gmail.com for writing or editorial opportunities.