Serena Chopra

Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, and a visual and performance artist. Her books include A Catalog of Future Mercies (Graywolf Press, 2026), This Human (Coconut Books, 2013), and Ic (Horse Less Press, 2017). She has also made two films: Dogana/Chapti (2019), an official selection at Frameline43 and the Seattle Queer Film Festival, and Mother Ghosting (2018). Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets, Burrow Press Review, Sink, Foglifter, and the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (2021). She has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a RedLine Artist In-Residence, and a Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). She is associate professor of creative writing at Seattle University.