Bio

Pushcart-prize winning poet, Dr. Ravi Shankar is the author / translator / editor of 17 books, including the Memoir Magazine and Connecticut Book Award finalist "Correctional," the Muse India-award winning translations of Andal, "The Autobiography of a Goddess," and W.W. Norton & Co's "Language for a New Century," called "a beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Caravan, The Chronicle of Higher Education and on the BBC, NPR and the PBS Newshour. He founded Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, has won residences and fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, been featured at Ubud and the Jaipur Literary Festival, given a TEDx talk on #impuritanthinking and currently teaches creative writing for the New York Writers Workshop and at Tufts University.

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harlequin bulbs regenerated from last year's roots
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