Sneha Madhavan-Reese is an award-winning writer and author of the poetry collections Elementary Particles and Observing the Moon. Her poems have appeared in publications around the world, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2016.

Sneha's second collection, Elementary Particles, is inspired by her South Asian heritage and passion for science, and has themes of identity and belonging, language and loss. Elementary Particles was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and was a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award. Order a copy through your local independent bookstore or directly from Brick Books.

Look for her recent poems in the Spring 2026 issue of Queen's Quarterly, Summer 2025 issue of Rattle, the Spring 2025, Summer 2025, and Fall 2025 issues of The New Quarterly, and forthcoming in the Coach House Books anthology On Occasion (Spring 2026) and a future issue of Scientific American (2028).