Introducing the new facilitator for Ōtepoti Writers Lab

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Rushi Vyas

A new year calls for...a new addition to the ŌWL team!   This year the immensely talented Rushi Vyas is joining their rotation of facilitators.

Rushi is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection When I Reach For Your Pulse (Four Way Books, 2023) and the collaborative chapbook Between Us, Not Half a Saint with Rajiv Mohabir (Gasher, 2021). 

Born and raised in the US, Rushi now lives in Ōtepoti (Dunedin) in Aotearoa New Zealand where he is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Otago studying the use of creative ritual in poetic practice. Rushi has poems forthcoming or published in The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Pigeon Pages, Adroit Journal, Tin House, The Offing, Landfall (NZ), the anthology A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2021), and elsewhere.