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Pushcart nominee Ujjvala Rahn's poetry collection, Memories Lounge, is nothing short of a knockout! She's a poet who's both technically highly skilled and whose content is totally original and emotionally moving. Indeed, I predict that with the publication of this book, her work will be embraced by poetry lovers everywhere. -Rosemary Daniell, author of The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness and Mercy and nine other books of poetry and prose. Memories Lounge invites readers into intimate, interior reflections on a woman's life, a carefully observed, personal tapestry of memory, grief, and possibility. This collection of poetry is a prism, refracting the struggle for self-identity, the resilience that emerges from trauma, the intricacies of love and desire, and the vulnerability of motherhood into the yearning to find connection and meaning amid hurt. Precisely detailed and emotionally honest, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn's poems shine like the light in cracked glass: oblique fractures charting a luminous narrative line. -Bryan Penberthy, author of Lucktown Ujjvala Bagal Rahn's Memories Lounge is a remarkable journey from her teenage years to a young woman navigating adulthood, where mascara and the feminine are metaphors for survival. These poems are memories, but more so, her memories are pure poetry, where, because ""memory is not enough,"" one must experience a different world. She throws the reader into her internal life, takes her ""girlhood's failure,"" and asks the reader to travel in her adult mind through time to ""crack the door open"" to where she is, ""the shaft of light."" These poems are illuminating and insightful, from drugged-out Debbie's botched drug deal to her ""old Denim Jacket"" becoming ""her second skin,"" Rahn ""provoke[s an] avalanche...."" This is a formidable poetry collection. -William Walsh, author of Haircuts for the Dead and Fly Fishing in Times Square

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A 2025 and 2021 Pushcart nominee, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn was a finalist for the 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, and the 2025 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Her work has appeared in venues such as The Threepenny Review, The James Dickey Review, I-70 Review, Boomerlitmag, and the prose poetry anthology Fantastic Imaginary Creatures (Madville Publishing), and will appear in. Her previous poetry collection was Red Silk Sari (Red Silk Press). She is the Department Head of Natural Sciences and chemistry instructor at Savannah Technical College. She and her husband live in Savannah, GA.

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