Ravi Shankar is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the international online journal of the arts, drunkenboat.com
He has published the book "Instrumentality" and was named a
finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards, and with Reb Livingston, a collaborative chapbook, "Wanton Textiles". His
work has previously appeared in such publications as The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, Time Out New York, The Massachusetts Review, Fulcrum, McSweeney's, The Writer's Chronicle, among many others. He
has taught at Queens College, U of New Haven, and Columbia where he received his MFA in Poetry. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, BBC and Wesleyan Radio and read his work in many places, including the Asia Society, St. Mark's Poetry Project and the National Arts Club. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle
East & Beyond".

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