Aurvi Sharma grew up in the Indian hinterland, moving from river to river with her family.
Winner of the 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Aurvi's work has been anthologised in the Best American Experimental Writing 2020 and her essays are notables in the Best American Essays 2017 ("Apricots") and 2016 ("Eleven Stories of Water and Stone").
Aurvi has been awarded the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, the Prairie Schooner Essay Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and three Pushcart nominations.
A Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Nonfiction, Aurvi has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Tin House.
As the recipient of the Sarai-CSDS Nonfiction Fellowship, Aurvi revisited her childhood homes to walk the ruins of time located on the banks of dying rivers in North India. She is working on a memoir about her forgotten foremothers, the Yamuna River, and the disobedient women who thrived by the river for millennia.
Aurvi's writing appears in Bon Appetit, Guernica, Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, Fourth Genre, Essay Daily, and Everyday Genius.
A branding consultant at Studio 577, she lives in New York City.
(Art by Rachita Dalal of Studio577.)
Winner of the 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Aurvi's work has been anthologised in the Best American Experimental Writing 2020 and her essays are notables in the Best American Essays 2017 ("Apricots") and 2016 ("Eleven Stories of Water and Stone").
Aurvi has been awarded the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, the Prairie Schooner Essay Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and three Pushcart nominations.
A Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Nonfiction, Aurvi has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Tin House.
As the recipient of the Sarai-CSDS Nonfiction Fellowship, Aurvi revisited her childhood homes to walk the ruins of time located on the banks of dying rivers in North India. She is working on a memoir about her forgotten foremothers, the Yamuna River, and the disobedient women who thrived by the river for millennia.
Aurvi's writing appears in Bon Appetit, Guernica, Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, Fourth Genre, Essay Daily, and Everyday Genius.
A branding consultant at Studio 577, she lives in New York City.
(Art by Rachita Dalal of Studio577.)
