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. In my research and practice, I have cultivated interests in the fields of grief, mythology, inheritance, feminine identity, the nature of language, eco-fiction 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 Writer’s Workshop
- Bahía Colectiva
- Broth Bitches
- CalArts School of Theatre
- Coca-Cola India
- 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