Rushi Vyas is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection When I Reach For Your Pulse (Four Way Books, 2023) and the collaborative chapbook Between Us, Not Half a Saint with Rajiv Mohabir (Gasher, 2021). Born and raised in Ohio, Rushi lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin where he is a PhD candidate at the University of Otago and a facilitator for the Ōtepoti Writers Lab. Rushi's poems can be found online and in print in A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2021), The Georgia Review, Adroit Journal, Tin House, The Offing, Pigeon Pages, Landfall, and elsewhere.