Saudamini Siegrist is a poet and playwright. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals. She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and was shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize 2021. She was a finalist, in 2022, for the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry. Her play, #IAmAntigone, was presented as a showcase in New York City and received the 2019 Moondance award for the category of Stage Play. She has a PhD in English literature from New York University and an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Saudamini lives in New York City and works as a consultant on human rights for the United Nations.