Bio
Athena Kashyap was raised in Bangalore and Bombay until she was eighteen, and then went to the United States for her higher education. After studying Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College, she did her M.A. and M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from University of California at Davis, and San Francisco State University. She taught English writing and literature at City College of San Francisco. She currently makes her home in San Francisco and Bangalore.
Kashyap’s first book of poetry, Crossing Black Waters, was a finalist in the Stephen F. Austin State University Press Award, and will be published by them simultaneously in the U.S. and India in 2012). She has published her poetry in Exquisite Corpse, Sanskriti, The Fourth River, Quiddity, Spork, Squaw Valley Review, the Waits-Mast Poetry Collection 2009 chapbook, Noe Valley Voice, Asia Writes among other journals. Her poetry has also been anthologized in Voices of Asian American Writers (U.S.) and Same Difference (Vaani, UK) She has been awarded fellowships to attend writing workshops at Squaw Valley and Mount Holyoke College.