Parvinder Mehta is an independent scholar, educator and poet based in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a PhD in English from Wayne State University, where her doctoral research examined immigrant subjectivities in works by contemporary Asian American women writers and filmmakers.

Her research and teaching interests include cultural studies, Anglophone and postcolonial literature and film, multiethnic American literature, Sikh studies, and diaspora and migration. She teaches advanced writing, literature and film at undergraduate level.

Parvinder’s academic work includes peer reviewed journal articles and chapters in scholarly monographs, while her creative writing has appeared in literary anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, On Wings of Words, was published by Khalis House in 2021. She is currently completing her second poetry collection.