Shamala Gallagher is the author of a poetry collection, Late Morning When the World Burns (The Cultural Society, 2019) and a chapbook, I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke (Dancing Girl Press, 2015). Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Athens, GA.