Independent journalist, fiction-writer, poet, and editor, Ramola D has a background in science, management, and literature and currently researches issues in science, technology, and ethics relevant to our times, including issues related to Intelligence, Surveillance, Security, and Defense. She runs an investigative journalism site at everydayconcerned.net, and has edited the online literary quarterly, Delphi Quarterly. Her literary journalism, fiction, and poetry have been published widely. She is the author of a second collection of short fiction, For the Sake of the Boy (Paycock Press, 2022), a first collection, Temporary Lives (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009) which won the 2008 AWP Grace Paley Fiction Award and a collection of poetry, Invisible Season (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1998) which co-won the WWPH publication award. Recipient of a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Scholarship, she has several manuscripts of poetry she needs to publish. She has taught creative writing at The George Washington University, at The Writers' Center, Bethesda, and at her own children's creativity workshop center with a website at artcreatewrite.com. You can follow her online at @SatyaCovertCAS, at Substack (Plain Speaking), at her website everydayconcerned.site, at her Video channels Ramola D Reports at Bitchute, Brighteon, Rumble, Odysee, Lbry, or at Facebook and Telegram.