Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Public address:

East Lansing, MI

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_. 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 seventy publications in twenty nations in Africa, the Américas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Places of publication include Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Canada, England, France, Hawai'i, Hong Kong, Ireland, Morocco, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Scotland, South Africa, St. Croix, Sweden, and Wales. The author of a second poetry collection, _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_.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Bronx

Raised in:

Lenapehoking, NY

New York

Website:

http://www.msu.edu/~bodhran [2]

Prizes won:

1) New American Press Chapbook Contest Winner. 2) _Bamboo Ridge_ Editors' Choice Award in Poetry. 3) Michigan State University Dean's Recruitment Fellowship, Excellence in Diversity Award, Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award, Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship, Somers Excellence in Teaching Award, and Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 4) Emerging Writer Scholarship from the Lambda Literary Foundation. 5) Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. 6) Macondo Writers' Workshop Scholarship from the Macondo Foundation. 7) Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. Scholarship for residency at Soul Mountain. 8) Educational Foundation of America Fellowship for residency at Vermont Studio Center. 9) Additional residencies awarded by Wildacres, Escape to Create, Caldera Arts Center, The Paden Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Prairie Center of the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Yaddo, and James Merrill House. 10) In Our Own Write Poetry Contest of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York. 11) Nominated four times each for a Pushcart Prize and _Best New Poets_. 12) Contributor to _Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation_, an anthology which won a Publishing Triangle Award and Lambda Literary Award. 13) Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) WC&C Scholarship.

What I'm reading now:

Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti)

Food & Spirits by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti)

Writing as Witness by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti)

I'll Sing 'til the Day I Die: Conversations with Tyendinaga Elders by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti)

Identifies as:

LGBTQ

Mixed Race

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Any

At Risk Youth

LGBTQ

Naturalists/Environmentalists

Teachers