Serena Chopra(2018)
Serena Chopra is the author of two books of poems, This Human and Ic, and two chapbooks, Penumbra and Livid Season. She is a 2016–2017 Fulbright Scholar, for which she is composing writing informed by her research with queer women in Bangalore, India. She is a 2011–2013 RedLine resident and a multidisciplinary artist, working as a professional dancer, theater/performance artist, and visual artist. She is a co-founder and actor in the poets’ theater group, GASP, and worked with Denver’s Splintered Light Theater on a full-length production of her book Ic, for which she composed the soundscore. She has an ongoing text/image collaboration, Memory Is a Future Tense, with artist Lu Cong. Chopra currently teaches in the MFA program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.