Join San Mateo County Libraries and Foglifter for our virtual panel, "Poetry as Curiosity: Off the Page and Into the World" on Wednesday, April 12 at 6:00pm PT! Our panelists are Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Jhani Randhawa, Dior J. Stephens, and Kanika Agrawal!
If you are curious about how writers find their voices and how words find their way onto a page, this event is for you. Each panelist will share their own writing, general thoughts on "curiosities" or commentary on how curiosity influences their writing process. Come ready with any questions you may have, as there will be a Q&A portion of this panel! Time permitting, we will also offer a writing exercise to complete together or to explore at home.
This event is intended for curious writers of all ages, education levels, and racial backgrounds. This is not an "expert" panel -- but rather a coming together of people with a shared passion, a shared curiosity, where we can all contribute and learn from one another.
Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer and mad diasporic hybrid developed across six countries on four continents. She holds a double BS in Biology and Writing from MIT, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She is Fiction Editor at khoréo, a quarterly magazine of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction, and Hybrid/Nonfiction Editor at Foglifter. Her own work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, FOLDER, SAND, The Texas Review, and various SF&F publications. Kanika has received fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Denver, CO, with her senior toy fox terrier. You can also find her online at antiquarkic.com and twitter.com/antiquarkic.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest, and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She is the recipient of the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Yale Review, Indiana Review, and The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit.
Jhani Randhawa (they/them) is a Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American collaborator, maker, and editor currently based in North America. The author of Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and co-founding editor of the experimental arts publication rivulet, Jhani has studied at Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (Muir Woods, California), and has participated in artist residencies at Blue Mountain Center (Blue Lake, New York), Writers House (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Millay Arts (Austerlitz, New York), and the Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, Wisconsin). Their multidisciplinary work has appeared or is forthcoming in the de-Canon/Fonograf Editions Hybrid Literature Anthology, O BOD, ASAP/J, Footnotes (The Poetry Project), Figure 1, Soap Ear, Thymele Arts (Los Angeles, CA), Heimbold Visual Arts Center (Bronxville, New York), and the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, Wisconsin), among others. In 2023, Jhani will begin graduate studies at the University of London, SOAS with a focus on the art of queer and diasporic "creative refusals." Online: @qjhanip / http://jfkrandhawa.com
Dior J. Stephens is a proud pisces hailing from Midwestern waters. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL, was published this spring with Nightboat Books. They are the Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter Journal and Press. They tweet at @dolphinneptune and Instagram at @dolphinphotos.
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If you are curious about how writers find their voices and how words find their way onto a page, this event is for you. Each panelist will share their own writing, general thoughts on "curiosities" or commentary on how curiosity influences their writing process. Come ready with any questions you may have, as there will be a Q&A portion of this panel! Time permitting, we will also offer a writing exercise to complete together or to explore at home.
This event is intended for curious writers of all ages, education levels, and racial backgrounds. This is not an "expert" panel -- but rather a coming together of people with a shared passion, a shared curiosity, where we can all contribute and learn from one another.
Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer and mad diasporic hybrid developed across six countries on four continents. She holds a double BS in Biology and Writing from MIT, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She is Fiction Editor at khoréo, a quarterly magazine of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction, and Hybrid/Nonfiction Editor at Foglifter. Her own work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, FOLDER, SAND, The Texas Review, and various SF&F publications. Kanika has received fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Denver, CO, with her senior toy fox terrier. You can also find her online at antiquarkic.com and twitter.com/antiquarkic.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest, and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She is the recipient of the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Yale Review, Indiana Review, and The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit.
Jhani Randhawa (they/them) is a Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American collaborator, maker, and editor currently based in North America. The author of Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and co-founding editor of the experimental arts publication rivulet, Jhani has studied at Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (Muir Woods, California), and has participated in artist residencies at Blue Mountain Center (Blue Lake, New York), Writers House (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Millay Arts (Austerlitz, New York), and the Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, Wisconsin). Their multidisciplinary work has appeared or is forthcoming in the de-Canon/Fonograf Editions Hybrid Literature Anthology, O BOD, ASAP/J, Footnotes (The Poetry Project), Figure 1, Soap Ear, Thymele Arts (Los Angeles, CA), Heimbold Visual Arts Center (Bronxville, New York), and the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, Wisconsin), among others. In 2023, Jhani will begin graduate studies at the University of London, SOAS with a focus on the art of queer and diasporic "creative refusals." Online: @qjhanip / http://jfkrandhawa.com
Dior J. Stephens is a proud pisces hailing from Midwestern waters. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL, was published this spring with Nightboat Books. They are the Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter Journal and Press. They tweet at @dolphinneptune and Instagram at @dolphinphotos.
Join San Mateo County Libraries and Foglifter for our virtual panel, "Poetry as Curiosity: Off the Page and Into the World" on Wednesday, April 12 at 6:00pm PT! Our panelists are Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Jhani Randhawa, Dior J. Stephens, and Kanika Agrawal!
If you are curious about how writers find their voices and how words find their way onto a page, this event is for you. Each panelist will share their own writing, general thoughts on "curiosities" or commentary on how curiosity influences their writing process. Come ready with any questions you may have, as there will be a Q&A portion of this panel! Time permitting, we will also offer a writing exercise to complete together or to explore at home.
This event is intended for curious writers of all ages, education levels, and racial backgrounds. This is not an "expert" panel -- but rather a coming together of people with a shared passion, a shared curiosity, where we can all contribute and learn from one another.
Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer and mad diasporic hybrid developed across six countries on four continents. She holds a double BS in Biology and Writing from MIT, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She is Fiction Editor at khoréo, a quarterly magazine of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction, and Hybrid/Nonfiction Editor at Foglifter. Her own work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, FOLDER, SAND, The Texas Review, and various SF&F publications. Kanika has received fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Denver, CO, with her senior toy fox terrier. You can also find her online at antiquarkic.com and twitter.com/antiquarkic.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest, and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She is the recipient of the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Yale Review, Indiana Review, and The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit.
Jhani Randhawa (they/them) is a Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American collaborator, maker, and editor currently based in North America. The author of Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and co-founding editor of the experimental arts publication rivulet, Jhani has studied at Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (Muir Woods, California), and has participated in artist residencies at Blue Mountain Center (Blue Lake, New York), Writers House (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Millay Arts (Austerlitz, New York), and the Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, Wisconsin). Their multidisciplinary work has appeared or is forthcoming in the de-Canon/Fonograf Editions Hybrid Literature Anthology, O BOD, ASAP/J, Footnotes (The Poetry Project), Figure 1, Soap Ear, Thymele Arts (Los Angeles, CA), Heimbold Visual Arts Center (Bronxville, New York), and the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, Wisconsin), among others. In 2023, Jhani will begin graduate studies at the University of London, SOAS with a focus on the art of queer and diasporic "creative refusals." Online: @qjhanip / http://jfkrandhawa.com
Dior J. Stephens is a proud pisces hailing from Midwestern waters. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL, was published this spring with Nightboat Books. They are the Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter Journal and Press. They tweet at @dolphinneptune and Instagram at @dolphinphotos.
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If you are curious about how writers find their voices and how words find their way onto a page, this event is for you. Each panelist will share their own writing, general thoughts on "curiosities" or commentary on how curiosity influences their writing process. Come ready with any questions you may have, as there will be a Q&A portion of this panel! Time permitting, we will also offer a writing exercise to complete together or to explore at home.
This event is intended for curious writers of all ages, education levels, and racial backgrounds. This is not an "expert" panel -- but rather a coming together of people with a shared passion, a shared curiosity, where we can all contribute and learn from one another.
Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer and mad diasporic hybrid developed across six countries on four continents. She holds a double BS in Biology and Writing from MIT, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She is Fiction Editor at khoréo, a quarterly magazine of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction, and Hybrid/Nonfiction Editor at Foglifter. Her own work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, FOLDER, SAND, The Texas Review, and various SF&F publications. Kanika has received fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Denver, CO, with her senior toy fox terrier. You can also find her online at antiquarkic.com and twitter.com/antiquarkic.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest, and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She is the recipient of the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Yale Review, Indiana Review, and The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit.
Jhani Randhawa (they/them) is a Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American collaborator, maker, and editor currently based in North America. The author of Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and co-founding editor of the experimental arts publication rivulet, Jhani has studied at Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (Muir Woods, California), and has participated in artist residencies at Blue Mountain Center (Blue Lake, New York), Writers House (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Millay Arts (Austerlitz, New York), and the Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, Wisconsin). Their multidisciplinary work has appeared or is forthcoming in the de-Canon/Fonograf Editions Hybrid Literature Anthology, O BOD, ASAP/J, Footnotes (The Poetry Project), Figure 1, Soap Ear, Thymele Arts (Los Angeles, CA), Heimbold Visual Arts Center (Bronxville, New York), and the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, Wisconsin), among others. In 2023, Jhani will begin graduate studies at the University of London, SOAS with a focus on the art of queer and diasporic "creative refusals." Online: @qjhanip / http://jfkrandhawa.com
Dior J. Stephens is a proud pisces hailing from Midwestern waters. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL, was published this spring with Nightboat Books. They are the Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter Journal and Press. They tweet at @dolphinneptune and Instagram at @dolphinphotos.
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