Soham Patel is the author of two chapbooks, and nevermind the storm (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2013) and Riva: a Chapter (kitchen-shy press, 2013). She is a Kundiman fellow and a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she serves as a poetry editor for cream city review. Patel became a member-at-large of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission in 2015.