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 poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine, a mentor for UniRely, and as the host and organizer of Ferrante Fever: An Elena Ferrante Reading Group.

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 and Winter Tangerine Review workshops, among others. 

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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 in underblong journal, Best Indian Poetry 2018, Transom, Aainanagar, Vayavya, TRACK//FOUR, Drunk In A Midnight Choir and Souvenir, among others. 

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Devanshi is the recipient of 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) 

• Cruciverba #2, underblong journal (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

• Disquiet: Murmurs From The Faultlines, Nivasini (forthcoming)

• Best Indian Poetry 2018, RLFPA Editions (2018)

Books

• Small Talk (Writers Workshop India, 2019) 

• Co:ma,to'se (Partridge, 2014)

• Welcome to Hilltop High (Indra, 2012)

Events

Media

Youtube

• Episode 116: Small Talk, The Truth to Power Show, Radio Free Brooklyn 

• 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 NYU 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

Interviews

• Arts Issue, Spring '19, Washington Square News

• Sweet Talk, Sugar Rascals 

• Teen Poet- April 2017, Moledro Magazine

• National Poetry Month, Litbridge

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