“It truly takes a village, a country, a continent, and a galaxy to nurture a writer and poet.”- Rochelle Potkar (Indian fictionist, poet and screenwriter)

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian fictionist, poet, and screenwriter Rochelle Potkar as a part of the South Asian Women Writers Feature.

For the whole of March, we will be featuring South Asian Women Writers on Kitaab for the whole of March. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.

Today, we are featuring Indian fictionist, poet, and screenwriter, Rochelle Potkar. Rochelle is an alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, at the University of Stirling (2017). She is the author of Four Degrees of Separation, Paper Asylum, Bombay Hangovers and a co-author of The Coordinates of Us/ सर्व अंशांतून आपण. Her poetry film Skirt was showcased on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland.