Devanshi Khetarpal

Student, Writer, Editor, Translator.

New York, New York.

Devanshi Khetarpal

Writer

Editor

Translator

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About

Devanshi Khetarpal is a poet and editor living in New York. Currently a junior at New York University majoring in Comparative Literature with a minor in Creative Writing, she was born and brought up in Bhopal, India.

She currently works as a Student Office Assistant for the NYU Department of Comparative Literature, the editor-in-chief and founder of Inklette Magazine, a global peer mentor for NYU Florence at the NYU Office of Global Programs, a poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine, application manager for The Speakeasy Project, a mentor for UniRely, and a Staff Writer for West 10th which is the literary journal of NYU'S prestigious undergraduate creative writing program.

She has previously served as poetry mentor for Glass Kite Anthology's Summer Writing Studio, an intern at Poets House, an editing intern for NYU La Pietra Dialogues at NYU Florence, poetry reader for The Blueshift Journal, a staff writer for the arts section of Washington Square News, an Assistant Poetry Editor for Minetta Review.social media manager (English) for Asymptote Journal and an advisor for Winter Tangerine Review's workshops.

Her work has been recognized by Hollins University, Columbia College Chicago and Gigantic Sequins. She is the author of three books: Welcome to Hilltop High (Indra, 2012), Comatose (Partridge, 2014) and Small Talk (Writers Workshop India, 2019). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Best Indian Poetry 2018, Indian Literature, Transom, Aainanagar, Vayavya, TRACK//FOUR, Drunk In A Midnight Choir and Souvenir.

Devanshi spent the Fall 2018 semester studying abroad at NYU Florence where she received the David J. Travis Undergraduate Research Fund for research on Modern Italy for a project on Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film, 'Salò o Le 120 giornate di Sodoma.' In addition to that, she spent the Summer 2019 semester studying abroad at NYU's Writers in Paris program held at NYU Paris. Since Spring 2018, Khetarpal has been on the Dean's List for her academic achievements and in the Fall 2019 semester, she will be learning the Punjabi language at Columbia University in New York through the Columbia Language Exchange offered by NYU.