Leeya Mehta

Leeya Mehta is a prizewinning poet and essayist. Her column “The Company We Keep” runs with The Independent. She has just finished a novel, Extinction.

A Story of the World before the Fence by Leeya Mehta

Leeya Mehta
Georgetown, Kentucky. Finishing Line Press. 2020. 46 pages. LEEYA MEHTA’S remarkable recent verse collection charts one woman’s attempts to isolate and identify a sense of heritage, a…
The Coming-of-Age Story of a Muslim Boy Wins India’s Highest Literary Prize

May 28, 2019 Leeya Mehta
Photo by Eirik Newth / Flickr In late 2018, India’s highest literary honor was awarded to Anees Salim’s fourth novel, The Blind Lady’s Descendants (Penguin India, 2015). The novel i…