Gowri Koneswaran is a queer Tamil-American poet, performing artist, teacher, and lawyer whose family immigrated to the U.S. from

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. She is a

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fellow.

Performances & Publications

Her poems are available in

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's ''The Quarry'', ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'', ''Bourgeon'', ''Lantern Review'', ''Washington City Paper'', and ''On Being''. She was also a member of the 2010 D.C. Southern Fried Slam Team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival, and Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company events co-sponsored by the Poets & Writers Readings/Workshops program.

Career

Gowri was previously The Humane Society of the U.S.'s Director of Animal Agricultural Impacts and a Program Manager for the Farm Animal Welfare division. She co-authored the peer-reviewed journal articles "Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change" and "The Public Health Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations on Local Communities."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Koneswaran, Gowri Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Sri Lankan emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women writers American women poets Tamil-American culture American people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent American poets of Asian descent