Devanshi Khetarpal

Bhopal, India. New York, New York. 

Devanshi Khetarpal

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About

Devanshi Khetarpal is from Bhopal, India, and currently lives in Manhattan, New York, where she is a BA-MA candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University. 

She currently works as the editor-in-chief and founder of Inklette Magazine, a Translations Coordinator for The Quarantine Train, a mentor for UniRely, the host and organizer of Ferrante Fever: An Elena Ferrante Reading Group, and an Intern for Fledgling Writing Workshops. 

She has previously held positions at Poets House, NYU La Pietra Dialogues, NYU Department of Comparative Literature, West 10th, Washington Square News,  Minetta Review, Asymptote Journal, Winter Tangerine Review workshops, and Muzzle Magazine among others. 

Her poetry collection Small Talk was published by Writers Workshop Kolkata in 2019. She is a recipient of the David J. Travis Undergraduate Research Fund for research on Modern Italy for an independent research project on Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film, 'Salò o Le 120 giornate di Sodoma,' conducted during her time at NYU Florence. This Spring, Khetarpal was named a recipient of the prestigious and competitive Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund (DURF) Grant from NYU's College of Arts and Science for an independent research project aimed at theorising Elena Ferrante's 'smarginatura' in order to analyze the relationships between urbanity, women and sexual violence across Italy, India and the United States.

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Publications 

​ONLINE (Selected) 

• nether, Atlantis (forthcoming)

• The Bombay Literary Magazine, Postmortem (forthcoming)

• Scroll.In, On 'The Lying Life of Adults' by Elena Ferrante (Summer 2020)

• Diacritics Blog, First Count (Summer 2020)

• The Alipore Post, translation of Corte dei Miracoli by Maurizio Cucchi (Summer 2020)

• underblong journal, Cruciverba #2 (Spring 2020)

• Transom, Let Us Consider (Fall 2018) 

• Aainanagar, Four Poems (Fall 2017)

• TRACK//FOUR, Aperture (Winter 2017)

• Vayavya, Two Poems (Winter 2017)

• Souvenir, Leaving (Winter 2017) 

• Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Three Poems (Summer 2016)

• Alexandria Quarterly, Untitled (Spring 2016)

• HIV Here and Now, Lullaby (Winter 2016)

AnTHOLOGIES

• Best Indian Poetry 2018, RLFPA Editions (2018)

Books

• Small Talk (Writers Workshop India, 2019) 

Events

Media

Youtube

Interviews

• Reading at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop

• Reading from 'Small Talk' at Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn 

• Reading from 'Small Talk' at Hell Phone, Brooklyn

• Reading for Kommune Bhopal at Dylogg Coworking

• Reading from "Trattino" at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House

• Reading "Small Talk" at Bowery Poetry Club

• Reading "Sandalwood" at Bowery Poetry Club

• Reading "Spring" at the Icelandic Poetry Center

• Reading "Here" at the Icelandic Poetry Center

• Reading "Let Us Consider" at the Icelandic Poetry Center

• Reading "Winter" at the Icelandic Poetry Center

• Reading "Bombay" at High Ground Cafe

• Arts Issue, Spring '19, Washington Square News

• Sweet Talk, Sugar Rascals 

• Teen Poet- April 2017, Moledro Magazine

• National Poetry Month, Litbridge

• Ep. 116, The Truth to Power Show, Radio Free Brooklyn 

• Reading Varavara Rao's 'Dream Pigeons' in Italian Translation, The Quarantine Train

• Reading five poems from Gianpaolo Donzelli's 'Stupore della nascita,' The Quarantine Train

• Haftaa x Devanshi, Haftaa by Awaam ki Aam Awaaz

Podcasts/features

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