#18 Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar is the author, editor or translator of over a dozen books, including most recently "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas Press, 2017) and "Andal: The Autobiography of A Goddess" (Zubaan Books/University of Chicago Press, 2016). He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, appeared on NPR, PBS, the BBC and in such publications as The New York Times, The Paris Review and Caravan, and been awarded many fellowships, including from the Rhode Island Commission on the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo. He founded Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, and he teaches and performs around the world, most recently for the New York Writers Workshop and as the Writer-in-Residence at Sun Yat-Sen University in Gwangzhou, China. His memoir-in-progress is entitled "Correctional" and he currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney.