Ravi Shankar is the founding editor and executive director of Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts. He has published or edited eight books and chapbooks of poetry, including the 2010 National Poetry Review Prize winner, Deepening Groove, and the 2005 finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards, Instrumentality. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited W.W. Norton's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond, called “a beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has won a Pushcart Prize, been featured in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, judged the SFSU Poetry Center’s book awards, appeared as a commentator on the BBC, NPR, and the Jim Lehrer News Hour. He's also received fellowships from the MacDowell, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and has performed his work around the world. He is currently chairman of the Connecticut Young Writers Trust, on the faculty of the first international MFA program at City University of Hong Kong and an associate professor of English at CCSU.
Ravi Shankar
Studios
Calderwood
Ravi Shankar worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…