Reetika Gina Vazirani (9 August 1962 – 16 July 2003)[1] was an Indian-American immigrant poet and educator.

She was six-years-old when her family left Punjab in 1968 as part of a wave of Indians coming to the United States after its immigration laws loosened in 1965.

[5] At the time of her death, Vazirani was Writer-in-Residence at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with the intent of joining the English department at Emory University.

[6] On 16 July 2003, Vazirani was housesitting in the Chevy Chase, Maryland,[4] home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, the poet, Jane Shore.

[15] Vazirani's final collection of poetry, Radha Says, edited by Leslie McGrath and Ravi Shankar, was published in 2009 by Drunken Boat Media.