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Reetika Vazirani
American poet
Reetika Gina Vazirani (9 August 1962 – 16 July 2003)[1] was an Indian-American immigrant poet and educator.[2]
Life
Vazirani was born in Patiala, India in 1962.
She was six-years-old when her family left Punjab in 1968 as part of a wave of Indians coming to the United States after its immigration laws loosened in 1965. The family settled, after a few interim stops, in White Oak, Illinois.
Her father, Sunder Vazirani, was an oral surgeon who received his graduate education at the University of Illinois, later to become the assistant dean at Howard University's dental school. Reetika graduated from Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland and continued her education at Wellesley College, graduating in 1984.
Reetika vazirani biography
It is there she received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to India, Thailand, Japan, and China. She later earned an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia as a Hoyns Fellow.[3]
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