She was longlisted for the Australian Book Review‘s 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, and was a runner-up for Epiphany Literary Magazine‘s 2025 Breakout! Prize, judged by Victoria Chang. Her recent work has been published in The Tightwires Anthology and Porcupine Literary Journal. Her early work can be found in several Iowa City literary magazines, including Fools, Boundless, InkLit, Snapshots, and more.

Amritha is currently pursuing her aspirations to write and teach English professionally by working as a Teaching Assistant at SAIC and a private tutor. She is deeply inspired by her time student teaching, tutoring, and working with young creatives, as well as her experience working on literary magazines such as Earthwords, Cave Writing, and Snapshots. She is deeply grateful to have received scholarships such as the Melvin J. Blough Scholarship and the Helen Aicher and Kenneth Ward Nelson Scholarship, among others, to aid her in her academic and literary journey.

Amritha admires the work of poets and writers such as Ada Limón, Kaveh Akbar, Paige Lewis, Ocean Vuong, and Richard Siken, is terrified of cockroaches, and always eats M&Ms in rainbow order from red to brown. She currently lives in Chicago with her eight houseplants.