In a teaching career spanning over four decades, Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca has been a teacher of English in colleges in India, and in an International school in Mussoorie for sixteen years, where she was also a Career Counselor. She taught  French and Spanish in private schools in Canada, after moving there in 1998. She is a widely published poet, with poems featured in various journals and anthologies, including the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, the Journal of Indian Poetry in English by Sahitya Akademi, SETU magazine, Madras Courier, Harbinger Asylum and Verse-Virtual. Her debut collection Family Sunday and other Poems was published in 1989. Her chapbook Light of the Sabbath was published in September 2021. Kavita is the daughter of the late poet Nissim Ezekiel. Her poetry page is https://www.facebook.com/kemendoncapoetry/ Her author page is https://kavitaezekielpoetry.com/