Thursday, March 22, 2007
Bhanu Kapil
8:00pm, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street

Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Writing that crosses genres

Co-sponsored by the Temple Creative Writing Program and Temple-Penn Poetics

Bhanu Kapil was born in England in 1968, to Indian parents,
and grew up in a working-class, South-Asian community in
Greater London. She came to the U.S. in 1990 and currently
lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches at Naropa
University. A writer forged by this history of migration
who has come to understand the border as a site of both
transformation and loss, Kapil's work crosses genre and subject
borders. Her books include Autobiography of a Cyborg (2000), The
Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (2001) and Incubation: A
Space for Monsters (2006). She has recently completed a long
prose work, Humanimal: a project for future children, a
creative non-fiction account of the Wolfgirls of Midnapure,
two children found living with wolves in 1920s Bengal.