Winner of The Birdy Poetry Prize-2020 by Meadowlark Books created to celebrate the voices of our era "This Selected group of poems illuminates some harsh realities regarding identity. There are poems that smack a consciousness sideways. The poems have a real grit to them. For the reader, each poem will be an eye-opening experience." Poet/Professor Stanley E. Banks, Blue Beat Syncopation (Bookmark Press) JC Mehta is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, author of several books, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Much of their work is informed by space, place, and ancestry. Mehta has served as the Editor in Chief of Crab Creek Review and has been awarded a number of art and research fellowships, including a First Peoples Fund fellowship and Eccles Centre Visiting fellowship at the British Library. Poetry-in-residency posts have taken Mehta to Crazy Horse Memorial, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Britain, and Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington DC. Book awards include gold at the IPPY Awards, Book Excellence Awards, and Reader Views Literary Awards.