Reetika Vazirani is the author of World Hotel (Copper Canyon, 2002) and White Elephants (Beacon, 1996). She attended Wellesley College and the University of Virginia. She has received a Poets & Writers Exchange Program Award and a Pushcart Prize. Her essay "The Art of Breathing" appears in the anthology How We Live Our Yoga (Beacon, 2001). She lives in Trenton, New Jersey. In September 2003, she will join the English department at Emory University.