About Rashna

Rashna Wadia is a poet, educator, and editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her BA in political science from McMaster University and an advanced degree in education from the University of Toronto.

A former elementary and middle school teacher with over twenty years of experience, she taught classes in literature, creative writing, social studies, theater, and journalism.

She was awarded an NEH summer fellowship to the Rutger’s Institute for Research on Women and has received scholarships and residencies from the Mendocino Arts Center, Tin House Summer Workshop, VONA, Orion Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshops.

She writes about the othering of land and body, and draws upon migration stories from the Parsi diaspora. Her poems appear in wildness, Black Warrior Review, The Margins, Tinderbox, RHINO, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.