Pramila Venkateswaran

Pramila Venkateswaran, author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002), Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008) Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009), Trace (Finishing Line Press, 2011) has published widely in the United States, Canada, and India in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Atlanta Review, and Kavya Bharati, and in award winning anthologies, such as Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry. In 2011, she received the Walt Whitman Poet of the Year award. A finalist for the Allan Ginsberg Poetry Prize, first prizes in national poetry competitions such as Two Review and String Poetry, and a semi-finalist for her recent book, Trace, she has performed her poems internationally, most recently at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, The Women’s Studies Quarterly, Socialism and Democracy, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and in anthologies of literature, culture and politics. She is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College, New York, is actively involved in giving workshops and readings across the island and beyond, and is the co-founder of Euterpe, the poetry venue in Emma Clark Memorial Library.