Bio

Mukund Gnanadesikan is the author of the 2020 novel Errors of Omission, the 2023 poetry chapbook Petit Morts: Meditations on Love and Death, and the 2023 children's picture book Clarence and Elroy. His first full poetry collection, Symphonie Disharmonica, was released in May. When not writing, he practices medicine in California.

Dry
hands,
sunbaked,
leave empty
from fields of plenty,
tented in prayer, unheeded.