Preeti Vangani

Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet & writer 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 been published 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 and YBCA through which she facilitates workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.

• Poetry

• MFA (Writing), University of San Francisco
• MBA, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, India