An alumna of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio 2015, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Inklette Magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Corner Club Press, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, The Cadaverine, HIV Here and Now and Alexandria Quarterly among others. Khetarpal is the recipient of an Honorable Mention from the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest by Hollins University and was a winner in the Young Authors Writing Competition by Columbia College Chicago.