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Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2026! From November 2-13, watch our daily features on a selection of women and nonbinary poets appearing at MBF.

 
 

Soham Patel will appear at the Fair on November 22, 2026 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Building 8, Third Floor, Room 8303. For more information, visit miamibookfaironline.com, follow @miamibookfair on Instagram and X, and join the conversation with #miamibookfair2026.


SOHAM PATEL is the author of The Daughter Industry: A Hauntological Confession, Alternative History, Speculative Autopoetics in Three Acts with Seven Players (Nightboat Books), and the previously published all one in the end/water, ever really hear it, winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar. They live in Blacksburg, Virginia, where they run the graduate publishing certificate on the MFA faculty at Virginia Tech, teaching courses on literary magazines, small presses, and digital publications.


 

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