Rhea Iyer
Writer and visual artist currently based in Bombay, India. Background in illustration, graphic design, creative writing, narrative, publication design and events/festival marketing. MFA in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts. My current research and practice delves into themes of grief, mythology, inheritance, feminine identity, dreams, the nature of language, and other consequences of the human condition.
Contact
oddwaffling@gmail.com
+91 88618 48002
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Publishing History
- Birthday Suits. Short story. For The Veranda’s Masalazine: Volume 1, Issue 1. June 2021.
- First, a Wakening. Excerpt. For the 2021 edition of the Next Words Anthology:Elysium is Empty. May 2021.
- Artwork in collaboration with Cards for a Cause, a design-led social initiative aimed to fund the fight against COVID-19 in India. August 2021.
- Artworks featured in Room Magazine, Issue 42.4: Fucked As We Are. Winter 2019.
- Them, As They Dance. Prose poetry. For the Anthology of New Writing. September 2019.
- Kaali-Peeli. Short story. For Kommune’s Bookends Anthology, Issue 2: Bombay. May
2019.
- Six-Inch Nails. Short story. For the Indian Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 1: Secrets.
October 2018.
- 140762. Short story. For Chaicopy: A Literary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1: When Pigs
Fly. February 2018.
- Goodnight. Poem. For the Bombay Review, Issue 17: NYPS Special. January 2017.
Reading, Exhibition & Performance
- Inheritance: A Reading, for ‘Next Words’ by CalArts, in collaboration with Marissa
Johnson, Sarah Stockton and Simone Zapata. California. September 2021.
- Elysium is Empty: MFA Creative Writing Showcase at REDCAT, California. May
2021.
- In the Spit of Spring, Remote, CalArts MFA2 Cohort. February 2021.
- In Proximity: A Reading, A Haunting. Halloween Special. CalArts. October 2020.
- Sister Library Art Bazaar, at Blankspace Company, Mumbai. March 2019.
- Meandria: Festival of Stories, in collaboration with Firki, Bangalore. October 2017.
- Paraphrase, in collaboration with Firki. Bangalore. November 2016.
- Representative for Srishti Institute at the National Youth Poetry Slam by Airplane Poetry Movement. Bangalore. September 2016.
- Public Art in collaboration with Art in Transit. Bangalore. September 2016.
Features
- Homegrown Illustrators on Our Radar by Disha Bijolia. Homegrown India, 21 November, 2022.
- Visual Artists Pick Their Favourite Cover Arts from 2019-2020 by Sukanya Agrawal. A Humming Heart, 22 November, 2020.
- Andrew Sabu
- Airplane Poetry Movement
- Asian American Literature Festival Collective
- Asian American Writer’s Workshop
- Bahía Colectiva
- BEW Live
- Broth Bitches
- CalArts School of Theatre
- Coca-Cola India
- Dilettante Army Magazine
- Edgar Jorge Baralt
- Joey Archie
- Kaya Press
- Kommune Arts India
- Milkteeth Books
- Robin Sukhadia
- Saikishore Annamaraju
- Seismic Sound Studio
- Spokenfest
- Street Konnect
- Surface Dwellers Collective
- TIA - Hand Painted Fabrics
- Tricycle Review
- Udaan - A KLM Enterprise
- Water & Rum
- Zaina Bseiso & Luis Gutiérrez Arias