Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on social justice, using nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her visual art has been shown in galleries throughout California, and has received praise from the International Luxembourg Art Prize for 2022 and 2023. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and appears in international journals and anthologies, most recently in great weather for MEDIA’s Beacon Radiant. Her full-length collection, Thawing: A Poetic Memoir, is out now from Collapse Press. Taneesh has a Master's in Linguistics from San Francisco State University, with training abroad in Mexico and Chile. She is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of San Francisco. Se habla español.