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“Line by line, Radha cuts her own way toward understanding the deep story she is in, a story we all share.” –William S. Barnes, The Ledgerbook
Winner, New Mexico Book Award in Poetry
Bloodline
“Bloodline is a mesmerizing, intelligent book, full of beauty, science, and ancestry.” –Michael Henry
I started writing on my mom’s Hermes 3000 typewriter when I was seven.
Since then, I have made it my life’s work to tap language’s power to gather our collective attention on what matters, whether through writing poems or by being a voice for innovation in health, environment, and business. In 2022, I launched Poet to Poet, a newsletter and private community for poets developing books.
My writing practice is rooted in ecological, social, and personal landscapes of the American West. I’m most interested in hidden narratives, exploring resonances between outer environment and what poet Muriel Rukeyser called our in-vironment (or what Gerard Manley Hopkins called the inscape of things) through language’s relational energy. I consider myself an eco-poet but not just that; I weave threads of physics, found texts, visual arts, and many other disciplines into poems. You also might say my approach leans into phenomenology, mirroring structures of consciousness in poetic expression.
Ecological time, like technological time, is speeding up. To highlight that, I use juxtaposition in my poems—combining human timelines and geologic phenomena, for example, or scientific theories and archetypal wisdom. The physicist Niels Bohr once said: “Physics isn’t the study of what is. It is the study of what we can say about what is.” Poetry is the same—not an encapsulation of a static thing but a series of textual/textural gestures that synchronize us with unseen facts, engaging us in the emotional truths we may require for our survival.
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“Poetry is not an encapsulation of a static thing but a series of textual/textural gestures that synchronize us with unseen facts, engaging us in the emotional truths we may require for our survival.”
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My collection Bloodline won the New Mexico Book Award for Poetry in 2018, and my poems appear in journals like FIELD, West Branch, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Iris, Chelsea, The Bellingham Review, and Poetry Northwest, among others. Recently “Fission: 1938″ garnered 1st prize from Pacifica Literary Review, chosen by Linda Bierds, and I’ve been a finalist for the FIELD Poetry Prize, the Alice James Beatrice Hawley Award, the Akron Poetry Prize, and the Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. I have been fortunate to pursue two writing degrees, one at Bennington College (BA) and the other at the University of Washington, Seattle (MFA), where I held the Klepser Fellowship in Poetry.
In 2022, I launched Poet to Poet, a newsletter and private community for poets developing books.
I have had the great pleasure of teaching writing and literature part-time at universities and colleges, community writing centers, conferences, and privately since 1999. My alter-writer ego pens prose for the Wilderness Society and other environmental nonprofits as well as Women’s Adventure, Yoga Journal, Outdoor Retailer, Outside, and other media.