Ami Patel (she/her) is a queer, diasporic South Asian multi-genre writer and artist. Her work can be found online and in print. Ami is a 2023/2024 IPRC re/source resident and a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow in Poetry.
Ami is a double Bruin with a BA in International Development Studies and an MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA. She has worked at nonprofits, a foundation, a public utility solar program, a chocolate company, and a theater arts festival.
Ami has previously lived in California & Hawai’i. She now lives in Portland, OR, which gives her plenty of verdant delight and poetic inspiration.