Leeya Mehta writes fiction and poetry. Her work explores the intimate space of the family and how it relates to the physical geography of cities and nature. She is the author of a chapbook, The Towers of Silence. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poems "Black Dog on the Anacostia River" (District Lit, 2015) and "The Abduction" (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2014), and is working on a novel.