A Nation (Imagined)

Natasha Kochicheril Moni is the author of A Nation (Imagined), winner of the 2018 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, Nearly (dancing girl press, 2018), Lay Down Your Fleece (Shirt Pocket Press, 2017), and The Cardiologist’s Daughter (Two Sylvias Press, 2014). She is a Jack Straw Writer, Hedgebrook alumna, and Puffin Foundation grant recipient. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and book reviews have been published in various journals, including PANK, Entropy, Magma, and Verse. Born in the North to Dutch and Indian parents and raised in the South, Natasha often addresses her cultural background in her work in an attempt to find home as a first-generation American. She is a licensed naturopathic doctor in her favorite state, where she considers herself fortunate to watch the sun set over the Olympic Mountains, daily.