Shamala Gallagher is an Indian/Irish American poet and essayist whose first book is Late Morning When the World Burns. She is also the author of a chapbook, I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), and her writing has appeared in Poetry, The Rumpus, The Offing, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Athens, GA with her family.