Ashini J. Desai balances creative writing with family and a technology management career. Her poems have been published in anthologies Cities, a 3-dimensional anthology Overplay/Underdone, as well as River Poets Journal, Philadelphia Poets, Thema, plus an Asian-American anthologies Word Masala, Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. Her essays were included in the Nancy Drew Anthology and Labor Pains and Birth Stories. She has written poetry and book reviews for South Asian-centric websites. Her personal website with selected poems is ashinipoetry.blogspot.com