Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (born 1969) is the first

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an female

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to be published in English. She was raised in

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and

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. Tsering received her BA from

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. She pursued her MA from

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and her MFA in creative writing from

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. She has a Ph.D. in literature from the

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and is currently an assistant professor in the English Department at Villanova University. Her first book of poems, ''Rules of the House'', published by Apogee Press in 2002, was a finalist for the

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in 2003. Other publications include, most recently a chapbook ''Revolute'' (Albion Books, 2021),''My Rice Tastes Like the Lake'' (Apogee Press 2011), ''In the Absent Everyday'' (also from Apogee Press), and two chapbooks: ''In Writing the Names'' (A.bacus, Poets & Poets Press) and ''Recurring Gestures'' (Tangram Press). In ''Letter For Love'' she delivered her first short story. In 2013, Penguin India published Tsering's first full-length book, ''A Home in Tibet'', in which she chronicles her successive journeys to Tibet and provides ethnographic details of ordinary Tibetans inside Tibet.

Bibliography

Books

*''Revolute'', Albion Books, VA 2021 *''Coming Home to Tibet'', Shambhala Publications, Boulder 2016 *''A Home in Tibet'', Penguin India, Delhi 2013 *''My Rice Tastes Like the Lake'', Apogee Press, Berkeley 2011 *''In the Absent Everyday'', Apogee Press, Berkeley 2005 *''Rules of the House'', Apogee Press, Berkeley 2002 *''Recurring Gestures'', Tangram Press, *''In Writing the Names'', Abacus, 2000

Anthologies

*''Old Demons, New Deities: Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet'', edited by Tenzin Dickie. OR Books, 2021. *''Contemporary Voices of the Eastern World: An Anthology of Poems'', edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar. W.W. Norton and Co. 2007 *''The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry'' Ed. Andrew Schelling, Wisdom Publications 2005 Page 41-51 *''Muses in Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry'' Ed. Bhuchung D. Sonam Paljor Publications Pvt. Ltd. India 2005. *''An Other Voice: English Literature from Nepa''l, edited by Deepak Thapa and Kesang Tseten, Martin Chautari 2002 Nepal

Articles

*"This Wor(l)d as an Illusion", Evening will Come, March 2011 * ''Letter For Love'', Caravan Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 08 (August 2010) The Caravan. A journal of politics and culture * "After the Earthquake", Phayul April 29, 2010 * ''Nostalgia in Contemporary Tibetan Writing''

References

Rules of the HouseTsering Wangmo Dhompa - Tibetan English Poetry
Rupkatha.com

External links

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Of Exile and Writing: An Interview with the Tibetan Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
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