Jessica (Tyner) Mehta

Jessica Mehta, PhD is an Aniyunwiya (citizen of the Cherokee Nation) multi-disciplinary poet and artist. She recently returned from a Fulbright Senior Scholar post in Bengaluru, India where she instituted the first credit-based generative workshop for MFA students at Christ University and curated an anthology of contemporary Indian poetry written in the colonizer’s tongue. Jessica’s installation “The Red C[h]airn Project” is currently one of four pieces on exhibit at the Ucross Gallery in Wyoming. Her 16th book, “sp[RED]” is under contract with the Indigenous-owned Red Planet Books for a 2024 release. Learn more at www.thischerokeerose.com.