Mansi Dahal is a writer from Biratnagar, Nepal earning her MFA at Columbia University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Tupelo Press, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. Her poem was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize. She graduated from Kalamazoo College with a BA in English and a concentration in Media and Film Studies. She is the editor-in-chief of Some Kind Of Opening (SKOO) and lives in New York.