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Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

Author's Bio

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is the author of _Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking_, winner of the New American Press Chapbook Contest; and the editor of an international queer Indigenous issue of _Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought_. Conceived in Niagara Falls, he was born in 1974 on El Día de la Madre in the South Bronx, raised in Lenapehoking, and has lived in Deutschland, Aztlán, and Tongva, Muwekma Ohlone, and Anishinaabe territories. A Brooklyn College M.F.A., he is an American Studies Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University. A community organizer for over two decades, his award-winning poetry and nonfiction appear in over a hundred publications in Africa, the Américas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. The author of a second chapbook, _South Bronx Breathing Lessons_, he is completing _Yerbabuena/Mala yerba, All My Roots Need Rain: mixed-blood poetry & prose_ and _Heart of the Nation: Indigenous Womanisms, Queer People of Color, and Native Sovereignties_.

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:
Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking (New American Press, 2012)
Anthologies:
People Are Starting to Talk about You: New Gay Male Poetry (Rebel Satori Press, 2012), Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011), Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Seal Press, 2010), I Was Indian: An Anthology of Native Literature, Volume I (Foothills Publishing, 2009), On the Road to Healing: An Anthology for Men Ending Sexism (Dual Power Press, 2009), Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008), Gay City: Volume One (Gay City Health Project, 2008), Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2008), Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World (Bisexual Resource Center, 2005), Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth Press, 2004), This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys & Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2004), Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and about the Police (Soft Skull Press, 2003), This Neutral Air: Writers Examine 9/11 and Its Subterranean Aftershocks (Phoebus Publications, 2003), A Flame in the Heart: A Love/Hate Anthology (Littoral Press, 2002), A Different Path: An Anthology of the Radius of Arab American Writers (Ridgeway Press, 2000), Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation (Haworth Press, 2000), Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology (Alyson Publications, 2000), Freedom's Just Another Word (Outrider Press, 1998), Left-Hand Maps: San Francisco Bay Area Poets (Small Garlic Press, 1998), XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997)
Journals:
ABZ, antiTHESIS, Ashé, Assaracus, Baltimore Review, Bamboo Ridge, Bat City Review, Blue Mesa Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Brand, Bravado, Brief, California Quarterly, Carapace, Carousel, Catalyst, Chiron Review, Colere, Collective Fallout , Compass Rose, Compost, Coracle, Cream City Review, dotdotdash, Drumvoices Revue, Eleven Eleven, Envoi, Etchings, Evergreen Chronicles, Existere, Faultline, Feile-Festa, Folio, Freshwater, Fuselit, Gertrude, Going Down Swinging, Gulf Coast, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Hawai'i Review, HeartLodge, In the Grove, Inscape, iota, Island, Kurungabaa, Landfall, LUNA, LUNGFULL!, maganda, Many Mountains Moving, Markings, merge, Mizna, Moonshot Magazine, Mosaic, Mythium, NANO Fiction, New Contrast, Off The Rocks, OnTheBus, Other Poetry, Otoliths, Ottawa Arts Review, Pacific Coast Journal, PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, Pank, Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Polluto, Poui, Raven Chronicles, Read This, Red Wheelbarrow, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Revival, RFD, River City, RUNES, Sable, Sketch, The Caribbean Writer, The Coe Review, The Delinquent, The Florida Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, The Nashwaak Review, The Red Clay Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Shop, Tidal Basin Review, Tiger's Eye, Tipton Poetry Journal, Trespass, Under the Sun, Upstairs at Duroc, Weave, Windmills, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought, you are here: the journal of creative geography, Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong & International Writing, Zaum, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture
Prizes:
New American Press Chapbook Contest; Editors' Choice Award in Poetry from _Bamboo Ridge_; Dean's Recruitment Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Excellence in Diversity Award, and Somers Excellence in Teaching Award from Michigan State University; Emerging Writer Scholarship from the Lambda Literary Foundation; Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; Macondo Writers' Workshop Scholarship from Macondo Foundation; Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. Scholarship for residency at Soul Mountain; Additional residencies awarded by Wildacres, Escape to Create, Caldera Arts Center, The Paden Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology; In Our Own Write Poetry Contest of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York.

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:
Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti), Food & Spirits by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti), Writing as Witness by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti)
Favorite Books:
_Sister Outsider_ by Gamba Adisa/Audre Lorde; _Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios_, _The Last Generation_, and _Waiting in the Wings: portrait of a queer motherhood_ by Cherríe L. Moraga; _Writing as Witness_ by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti); _From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i_ by Haunani-Kay Trask; _Not Vanishing_ and _Dream On_ by Chrystos; _Watermelon Nights_ by Greg Sarris; _Drowning in Fire_ by Craig S. Womack; _Shark Dialogues_ by Kiana Davenport; and other works by Indigenous, women of color, and queer people of color authors
Favorite Authors:
Gamba Adisa/Audre Lorde, Beth Brant (Degonwadonti), Chrystos, Joy Harjo, Joanna Kadi, Aurora Levins Morales, Cherríe L. Moraga, Greg Sarris, Gregory Scofield, Haunani-Kay Trask, Alice Walker, Craig S. Womack

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: May 5, 2012

More Information

Listed as:
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Identifies as:
G/L/B/T, Mixed Race
Prefers to work with:
Adults, Any, At Risk Youth, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Teachers
Fluent in:
English
Born in:
Bronx, NY
Raised in:
Lenapehoking, NY

Upcoming Readings and Workshops

  • June 30, 2012
    Greater Astoria Historical Society (Reading)
    Astoria, NY
  • June 30, 2012
    Greater Astoria Historical Society (Reading)
    Astoria, NY

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