Shailaja Vats Das

Shailaja is an emerging poet and an engineer living in Los Altos, California. She was born and raised in Ranchi, a small town in India, and now shares a slightly chaotic home with her husband, two teenage children, a dog, and more useless objects than she would ever agree to labeling thus. When she is not navigating her professional life or tending to her family, she is an occasional writer. Her work has appeared in two anthologies Turning the Corner(Eber & Wein), I Don’t Feel Anything (Wingless Dreamers), and in Superlative, A Literary Journal,. It is forthcoming in Half and One and Beyond Words. She is the editor of a coffee-table book, Boys II Men.

This Time, Anubis Came For Me

By Shailaja Vats Das / June 19, 2026

Watch me, watch me now, watch me live before I die. Watch my days, my weeks,

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