Ravi Shankar

Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar Ph.D. is the author and editor of over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including most recently, the memoir Correctional called “the work of an absolutely brilliant writer” by advance reviewer and shortlisted for the 2022 CT Lit Prize; the Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018 (Recent Works Press); W.W. Norton & Co.’s Language for a New Century called a “beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; the Muse India Award winning translations of 8th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press); an anthology celebrating a new poetic form and honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, The Golden Shovel (University of Arkansas Press); a collaboration with T.S. Eliot Prize winner George Szirtes, A Field Guide to Southern China (Eyewear Books); the National Poetry Review Prize winning Deepening Groove; the Carolina Wren judges award winning What Else Could it Be; a collaboration with late American artist Sol LeWitt Seamless Matter (Rain Taxi Ohm Editions); and the finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards Instrumentality, poems from which have appeared around the world. Translated into over 12 languages and recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner as well as winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize,

Shankar has taught at such institutions as Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney.