Gowri Koneswaran

Gowri Koneswaran is a queer Tamil writer, performing artist, teacher, and lawyer. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Environmental Health Perspectives, Adi Magazine, Lantern Review, Split This Rock’s The Quarry, and The Margins. She previously served as senior poetry editor at Jaggery and co-editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, environmental protection, the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused in the U.S., and justice and accountability in Sri Lanka. She is a fellow of the Asian American literary organization Kundiman and the recipient of the 2021 Nella Larsen Memorial Scholarship from the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Koneswaran’s first manuscript leverages poetry and hybrid texts to explore personal, intergenerational, and transnational trauma. Language is explored as temporal in its absence, loss, and adaptation. The sanitized vocabulary of state entities and mainstream media is re-versed into palpable modalities of grief and resilience.

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This bio/description was originally published in 2021 and updated in 2021. For more current information, please refer to the award recipient's website (if provided).