“selections from When What Is Feral and That is Night” by Serena Chopra
Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and was a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2018, winner of ArtHyve’s Archives as Muse Film grant, Official Selection at Frameline 2019) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University. You can find out more at SerenaChopra.com
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