As the mother of a young child, I have come to realize that writing begins when we start playing, that stories begin before verbal or written language, and we are all puppeteers and then playwrights before we are writers. In 2010, when I was pregnant, I left my shared studio because of the toxic chemicals used in the space, and found myself writing again. As an adult, I took very substantial breaks from reading and writing fiction to focus on studying history and making visual art. When did you start writing? Why did you want to be a writer?Īs a lonely and non-athletic teenager, I was always writing and reading. 1 Printshop of Lahore through the Center for Fiction ’ s Emerging Writers and Vermont Studio Center ’ s Grace Paley Fiction Fellowships. In 2016-2017, she will be working on her novel The No. She is a graduate of Hunter College ’ s MFA in Fiction program and a Kundiman fellow. She has exhibited at the DUMBO Arts Festival, Queens Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and received awards from the Jerome Foundation, the Bronx Council of the Arts, Cooper Union, and the Center for Book Arts. She has been published in The New York Times, Guernica, The Offing, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Swati Khurana was born in New Delhi, raised in the Hudson Valley, and lives in the Bronx. We recently caught up with Catapult Writing Program alumna Swati Khurana.
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