SHIVANI MEHTA
Shivani Mehta’s second poetry collection, The Required Assembly, is forthcoming from Press53 in March 2025. She is also the author of Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded. A former attorney, Shivani lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children where she co-owns and manages a business.
Every now and then I catch a glimpse of our reflections in the mirror, I’m never sure which of us is real.
I think of my own identity as fluid and in a perpetual state of fragmenting and reconfiguration. Like a jigsaw puzzle continually breaking apart at the fissure lines and reassembling. The individual pieces stay the same, but maybe the shapes change, and attach themselves differently to each other.
February 16, 2025
