Welcome to the **Meet Authors: Ravi Shenkar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, & Tim Tomlinson** event happening on **Sun, May 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM** at The BookSmiths Shoppe. Join us for an exciting afternoon filled with discussions, readings, and book signings with these talented authors. Get the chance to interact with them up close and personal, ask questions, and learn more about their writing process. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to meet your favorite authors in person! See you there!
About the Authors:
"Ravi Shenkar: Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar, PhD is the author and editor of over 18 books and chapbooks of poetry, including Bhutan: Dispatch from the Land of the Thunder Dragon (Fortunate Traveler, 2025); Tallying the Hemispheres: New and Selected Essays (Nirala Books, 2023); Memoir Magazine and Connecticut Book Award finalist Correctional (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022); Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018 (Recent Works Press, 2018); 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 Autobiography of a Goddess (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press, 2017); the National Poetry Review Prize winning Deepening Groove; the Carolina Wren judges award winning What Else Could it Be; and the finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards Instrumentality, poems from which have appeared around the world. "
Arundhathi Subramaniam: "Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality. Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai.[5] She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose.[6]
She has received the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships.[citation needed]
Her poetry has been published in Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets (Penguin India); Sixty Indian Poets (Penguin India), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust, India), We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi), Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry[9] (United States), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India,[10] featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,[11] Canada, and Atlas: New Writing (Crossword/ Aark Arts).
She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web."
Tim Tomlinson: " is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is also the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the collection of short fiction, This Is Not Happening to You. His work has been published in Australia, China, India, Singapore, the Philippines, and in many venues in the US, including the anthologies Long Island Noir, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. He’s run workshops in poetry and prose at many international locations, including Australia, China, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. He’s a certified yoga instructor, an avid scuba diver, and his past addresses include extended residencies in Shanghai, Manila, London, Florence, New Orleans, Boston, Miami, Andros Island, Bahamas, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, where he currently lives with his wife. He is on the Advisory Board of Asia Pacific Writers & Translators, and Whatabook (India). He’s been teaching in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies since the early 1990s."