Meher Manda is a poet, short story writer, journalist, editor, and educator originally from Mumbai, India, currently based in Providence, Rhode Island.

After an undergraduate degree in advertising and journalism from the University of Mumbai, she earned her MFA in Fiction at the College of New Rochelle where she was the founding editor-in-chief of the literary journal The Canopy Review. As a journalist, she writes about the intersection of culture and politics, with a focus on South Asian works of art. Her work can be found at The Juggernaut, Bustle, Scroll, Firstpost, and elsewhere.

She is the author of the poetry chapbook Busted Models (No, Dear / Small Anchor Press, 2019) and her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared and are forthcoming in Catapult, Epiphany, The Margins, Sportklet, Hobart Pulp, Cosmonauts Avenue, Los Angeles Review, Barren Magazine, Peach Magazine, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best New Poets 2020 and Best of the Net Anthology 2020 and has received fellowships and grants from DreamYard, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and J. N. Tata Endowment for Higher Education. She has been featured and interviewed at Brooklyn Poets, Catharsis Magazine, Hyperallergic, Asia Art Tours, The Polis Project, Lumina Journal, The Hindu, and elsewhere. 

As an educator, she has taught writing workshops at the College of New Rochelle and Bryant University. She has been a teaching artist with Community-Word Project, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, USDAN, the 92Y, and The Cooper Union Saturday Program. She has also taught concentrated creative writing craft workshops at the Manhattanville College, Queens Library, and the Langston Hughes House. Her teaching philosophy is rooted in writing for justice, inclusion of diverse literary voices, and the understanding that writing is an art form that continually informs, and is informed by contemporary politics. 

At the moment, she teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design, is the editor / publicist at the worker-owned, indie publisher Radix, and contributing writer for The Juggernaut.

She is collaborating on A Town Like Every Other, a political graphic novel with Mayukh Goswami, forthcoming from Hachette India in 2025, and revising her debut short story collection, Sicko Girl & Other Women. Her debut poetry manuscript, Some of Many Women, is a finalist for the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize.

She is the co-parent to two Tuxedo cats named Azad and Noorie.