Geetha Iyer received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University in 2014. Her publications include work in Orion, Gulf Coast, The Account, The Massachusetts Review, Electric Literature, and National Geographic. Her writing has received the O. Henry Award, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Calvino Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. She is the 2020-2023 Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College.