Kartika Budhwar is a writer, educator and editor based out of Ames, Iowa. She is an online writing instructor at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, and teaches composition and literature at the Iowa Western Community College. She serves as Senior Editor at the South Asian Avant-Garde Anthology and the forthcoming journal for work inspired by current events: Ripe Fiction. She was awarded Second place in the Arts and Letters Fiction Prize, the Blue Mesa Nonfiction Prize and the Indiana Review Fiction Prize; her prose and poetry appears in the same journals. She was also a Finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. She has received the Albert L. Walker Excellence in Literature Award , a Research Excellence Award, the Hogrefe Grant for Creative Writers, Teaching Excellence Awards and a fellowship at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory.
The music for this podcast is "Ira" by Blake Shaw.
Ongoing support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Arts Council, and from the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund. Phase 1 is an initiative of Arts Midwest and its peer United States Regional Arts Organizations made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Writers of Color Reading Series is produced by the Englert in Iowa City, Iowa, and is supported by Friends of the Englert. Visit www.englert.org/friends to support our programming.
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Host: Jesus “Chuy” Renteria
Line Producer & Audio Engineer: Savannah Lane
Executive Producers: John Schickedanz & Andre Perry
