Role Poet Name Tsering Dhompa | Notable works Rules of the House Genre Poetry, non-fiction | |
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Books Rules of the house, In the absent everyday Profiles | ||
Interview with tibetan writer and poet tsering wangmo dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (born 1969) is the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English. She was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received her BA from Lady Sri Sram College, Delhi University. She pursued her MA from University of Massachusetts Amherst and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her first book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002, was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011), In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press), and two chapbooks: In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Poets & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). In Letter For Love she delivered her first short story. In 2013, Penguin India published Tsering's first full-length book, A Home in Tibet, in which she chronicles her successive journeys to Tibet and provides ethnographic details of ordinary Tibetans inside Tibet.
Contents
- Interview with tibetan writer and poet tsering wangmo dhompa
- Tsering wangmo dhompa 1 organized by tanc and the oakland asian cultural center
- References
Tsering wangmo dhompa 1 organized by tanc and the oakland asian cultural center
