In The Woods

Poet : Avrina Prabala Joslin

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Avrina prabala-joslin (1992, Tamil Nadu) is a poet and fiction writer writing places, beings and times. Obsessed with memories that pervade and evade, often of childhood, avrina’s writing is an ebb and flow characteristic of their desire for the sea. avrina’s story won the Short Fiction / University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021 and works have been nominated for the CRAFT Short Fiction PrizeIndiana Review Fiction PrizeBerlin Writing Prize, Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize etc. Their research on feminist media won them the Niedersachsen Wissenschaftspreis 2019 and the Gender Thesis Prize 2020. Years of poetic and academic experience have enabled avrina to create a devoted bardic practice keen on bringing poetic narratives to collective spaces through readings in collaboration with fellow poets, and through literary practices such as their work as Prose Editor for international journal128Lit. avrina has read at/for Bangalore Literature Festival, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters Kerala, Prosanova Hildesheim, Academy of Arts Berlin, the LCB, Poesie Festival Berlin, Lovecrumbs Edinburgh, etc. apart from being published in Sinn und FormThe Bombay Literary MagazineStoff aus LuftKaalachuvadu etc. Avrina is one of the non-German language Literature Fellows of the city of Berlin 2024.