Neha Mulay is a New York-based writer and editor. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Maine Review, and SAND Journal, among other publications. Her essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Feminartsy, Overland, and elsewhere. She is a current MFA student in poetry at New York University. She is Art Editor and Web Editor at Washington Square Review. She has written extensively for Honeysuckle Magazine.
I don’t ever do anything from a place of fear—which is an odd place for me to be in because I have anxiety—but I have to [step into places of discomfort] because that’s where growth happens. If you’re comfortable, you’re not growing.
Poetry allows me to say the thing without a million conjectures. It leaves a lot of space and allows words to resonate and connect without me having to take you there . . . because of the conventions of poetry, I can say things that are understood as a gate to the truth.