Ramola D is a poet, writer, literary journalist, and editor of the literary review Delphi Quarterly. She has taught creative writing, composition, and literature at various Washington DC universities, including extensively at George Washington University. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. Her collection of short fiction, Temporary Lives (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009) won the 2008 AWP Grace Paley Award in Short Fiction. Her first collection of poetry, Invisible Season (WWPH, 1998) co-won the Washington Writers' Publishing House award. She lives, writes, and teaches children currently in the Boston metro area.