Shah is a self-described "Indian-American" who works in Houston as an accounting and finance professional. Shah says her poetry "is inspired by love for the small wonders of life, people, nature, music, and literary, visual and performing arts." She enjoys reading translated poetry from a wide variety of poets, including American, Indian, Russian, Turkish, and Western European writers. She grew up in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Shah has been published in the Houston Poetry Fest 1999 anthology as a juried poet.

She has forthcoming poems in "The Texas Observer" and the University of Houston's Department of History "Houston Review." Shah also continues to write poetry in her mother tongue Gujarati. Some of her work can be found at www.gujaratisamajofhouston.org. She has won both essay and poem competitions held by Dallas-Fort Worth Gujarati Society.

"These two examples of Shah's poetry exhibit her characteristic lean, stark imagery coupled with abrupt and clean phrasing. Her chopped and relentless flow is well brought off by strength of word choice. Difficult to believe this poet's second language is English-but her readers are the better for it, as the distant philosophy of her native land seeps through to the core of these poems." - Houston Poetry Review