VANDANA SEHRAWAT
Vandana Sehrawat was born and raised in Delhi, India, from where she emigrated in her teens without her family. She is a writer, multimedia artist, and activist who has perpetually found herself inhabiting liminal states—of body, of language, of citizenship. Her lifelong concerns are social and human ecologies and the profound impact our quotidian choices levy on animals, plants and the earth. She challenges the human-centric approach that often poses threats to other animate environs, ecosystems and earth surface processes.
She holds an individualized baccalaureate in Multimedia Arts, Writing, Copy Editing, Photography, and Engineering from CUNY, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University where she also taught. She earned an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, UK, where she was awarded the South Asian Bursary and her novel received a distinction. She is a fiction editorial consultant at CRAFT Literary and Witness magazines.
Vandana’s photographic works have exhibited at Soho Studios and Manhattan Theater Source, and included in the Hunter College Photographers’ Collective, The Issue. Her international self-portrait collaboration was a finalist for the Premio Fotoleggendo Prize at Officine Fotografiche in Rome, Italy. She employs a variety of tools, such as analog and digital cameras, paint, languages, her own body, and found objects to seek and convey meaning—favoring connection and concordance over egotism and isolationism.
