Author of two full length poetry collections, and winner of several awards and fellowships, including the Hedgebrook Residency, the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the TFA Creative Writing Award, the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize, and the Muse India Young Writer Award, I am now working on a collection of oral histories of women across India raised by single women.
I have been teaching creative and academic writing, one on one and in group settings, since 2004. My most popular workshop is a weekend creative writing workshop in New Delhi, but I also teach online and organise shorter intensive courses and writing camps around the country. I also use narrative therapy approaches and work in youth development, particularly in using the arts for social change.
After over a decade of being a hobby potter, I have recently started the exhibiting and selling ceramic work under the brand “HappyMess Ceramics.” At the moment, my pottery is entirely functional (I love the contrast of making functional pots while pursuing the least functional of writing forms!)— mostly mugs, coffeemakers, and bowls, wheel thrown stoneware, fired to cone 6.
