Author of The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories and Four Degrees of Separation, Rochelle Potkar is the alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and the Charles W...view moreAuthor of The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories and Four Degrees of Separation, Rochelle Potkar is the alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and the Charles Wallace writer’s fellowship, University of Stirling (2017). Her prose has been performed on stages in Iowa and Portland, Maine. She was the winner of the 2016 Open Road Review short story contest for ‘The Leaves of the Deodar’. Her poem ‘Cellular: P.O.W.’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Hungry Hill competition, Ireland, and ‘Ground Up’ won third place at the David Burland Poetry Prize, 2017. Her story ‘Chit Mahal (The Enclave)’ appears in The Best of Asian Short Stories. Her poem ‘The Girl from Lal Bazaar’ was shortlisted for the Gregory O’ Donoghue International Poetry Prize, 2018. She is editor of the Goan-Irish anthology Goa: A Garland of Poems, with Gabriel Rosenstock. Her poem ‘Skirt’ has been made into a poetry film by Philippa Cousins for the Visible Poetry Project, 2018. https://rochellepotkar.comview less