Bhanu Kapil was born in England to Indian parents. She taught for twenty years at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and for Goddard College in Vermont for fourteen years (where she still teaches). She is the author of six books of poetry/prose: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006/Kelsey Street Press, 2021), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2015) and How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry 2020), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Bhanu has returned to live in the UK, and is currently an artist by-fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.

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