Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s  publications include the poetry collections Not Springtime Yet ( 2008, HarperCollins) and Dialogue and Other Poems (Sahitya Akademi 2005, reprint 2006) , the novels Generation 14 (2008, Penguin-Zubaan) and The Other Garden (1995, Rupa&Co.), and, as editor, two anthologies All Poetry is Protest (2003) and 50 Poets 50Poems (2006, Open Space). 
She edits the website Talking Poetry and is a columnist with the Hindustan Times. Her work is published in various journals and websites in Europe, the US and India.  Conference, The Image of the Writer in Literature was curated by her in 2007 for the Indian Academy of Literature.
She is currently writing Love: Stories.

Sarukkai-Chabria has learnt Pail.  She has collaborated (script, narration) with Malavika Sarukkai and Saroja Kamakshi in the interdisciplinary productions Fireflies (1994), Srinkala (2000) and Vipinam – The Grove (2006) that were presented in India and abroad.  She has also worked with moving images, miniature paintings and digital photomontage. 
She co-founded the film club, Friends of the Archive that specialized in screening silent movies.  She co-scripted the short film, Dhaara directed by Suresh Chabria that opened The Critics Section, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany in 1989.

She is Recipient, Senior Fellowship to Outstanding Artists for Literature (1996-1999) from the Government of India for exploring the validity of the classical rasa theory of aesthetics in contemporary writing in English. One of her first stories, The Cloud Quilt received Special Mention in The Asian Age Short Story Competitionin1995. She walks porcupines and listens to the sound of the sea in a conch.