Ravi Shankar

Dr. Ravi Shankar is a Pushcart prize-winning poet, translator and professor who has published 15 books, including The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1998-2017. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he co-edited W.W. Norton’s Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond called “a beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. Called “a diaspara icon” by The Hindu, he has taught and performed around the world and appeared in print, radio and TV in such venues as The New York Times, NPR, BBC and the PBS Newshour. He has won awards to the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, fellowships from the Rhode Island and Connecticut Counsel on the Arts, founded one of the oldest electronic journals of the arts Drunken Boat, is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT) and recently finished his PhD from the University of Sydney. He currently teaches creative writing at Tufts University and his memoir “Correctional” called “the work of an absolutely brilliant writer” was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2022.