Bhanu Kapil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  For twenty years, she taught seminars on narrative and architecture, poetry, and performance at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Since 2019, she has been based in Cambridge, where she is now an Extraodinary Fellow of Churchill College. Kapil is the author of a number of full-length collections, including (in the UK): How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press) and Incubation: a space for monsters (Prototype). The recipient of the TS Eliot Prize, a Windham-Campbell Prize, the 16th International Poetry and People Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge), Kapil also collaborates with Blue Pieta, a choreographer, dramaturg, performer and artist. Their co-authored book of scores and essays, Autobiography of a Performance, is forthcoming in a new edition. Currently, in the Archives Center of Churchill College, Kapil is writing Novel on Yellow Paper, by hand. Her blog can be found here.

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