Reetika Reetika Vazirani. Reetika vazirani is a past winner of the nation's discovery award. She has received a barnard new women poets' prize for white elephants.

Reetika vazirani’s first book of poetry, white elephants, feels like a finely calibrated emotional instrument, according to a reviewer in the virginia quarterly. Reetika vazirani was born in india in 1962 and immigrated to the united states when she was six years old.