Yamini Pathak

Yamini Pathak is a poet whose debut full-length collection, Her Mouth a Palace of Lamps, was published by Milk & Cake Press in 2025. Her earlier chapbook, Atlas of Lost Places, also came out from Milk & Cake Press in 2020. She has also published Breath Fire Water Song with Ghost City Press. Her poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry Northwest, Tupelo Quarterly, Waxwing, and Sierra, among others. She was nominated for Best New Poets and was a finalist for Frontier Poetry's Global Poetry Prize (South Asia). She holds an MFA in poetry from Antioch University. She serves as editor for Inch micro-chapbooks at Bull City Press and works as a Poet in Schools and teaching artist in New Jersey. She was born in India and lives in New Jersey.