A 2025 and 2021 Pushcart nominee, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn was a finalist for the 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, and the 2025 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Her work has appeared in venues such as The Threepenny Review, The James Dickey Review, I-70 Review, Boomerlitmag, and the prose poetry anthology Fantastic Imaginary Creatures (Madville Publishing), and will appear in. Her previous poetry collection was Red Silk Sari (Red Silk Press). She is the Department Head of Natural Sciences and chemistry instructor at Savannah Technical College. She and her husband live in Savannah, GA.