Serena Chopra, PhD

Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a 2011-2013 Redline artist in Residence, and a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic: A Sociolinguistic Conspiracy Theory (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2018, Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Seattle Queer Film Festival and QueerX) and Mother Ghosting (2018).