SAMBHAVI DWIVEDI

writer

ABOUT
Sambhavi Dwivedi is an MFA candidate in fiction at NYU, where she is a Goldwater Fellow. A 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2024 Best of the Net Nominee, her poetry is featured in The Westchester Review, MudRoom Magazine, Door Is A Jar, Crab Apple Literary, Parentheses Journal, The Ocean State Review and Midway Journal, and her criticism appears in Words Without Borders. She was a finalist for the 2024 Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest , and she is a recipient of the Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing and an honorable mention for the Academy for American Poets' Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize.
POEMS
"Holding a Bird in Your Hands" — Midway Journal 
"Eclipse" — Midway Journal 
"Prayer" — The Ocean State Review 
"Red Berries" — The Ocean State Review 
"On Childhood" — Parentheses Journal 
"On Suffering" — Crab Apple Literary 
"Text Messages From My Father," "The Fish," "Years," "Sour" — Door Is A Jar Magazine 
"The Mango Tree" — MudRoom Magazine 
"On Thanksgiving" — The Westchester Review 
CRITICISM
"Li Kotomi's 'Solo Dance': The Violent Burden of the Past " — Words Without Borders 
AWARDS
2025 Pushcart Prize Nominee 2024 Rutgers University Henry Rutgers Scholar Award 2024 Rutgers University Jordan Flyer Prize for Best Honors Thesis Runner-Up 2024 Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest Finalist 2024 Best of the Net Nominee 2023 & 2024 Academy for American Poets Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize Honorable Mention 2023 & 2024 Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing