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Sascha Aurora
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right Sascha Aurora is a poet and filmmaker. Personal life Sascha Aurora was born in Pakistan. She is a freelance journalist, poet & art photographer. Her journalistic specialization is in writing from the subcontinent in English. She has interviewed Mohsin hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Nadeem Aslam Tarun J Tejpal amongst others. She has read at Harvard University, and most recently at the Troubadour in London, the Southbank Centre as part of the Poetry International Festival 2008 and at Colpitts Poetry in Durham. In 2003 she received a fellowship from the Creative Writing department at UMASS Amherst in America. Her collection The Grimoire of Grimalkin was published by Salt publishing in November 2007 http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713097.htm.With the publication of her book on SALT, the world's largest independent literary publisher, she has become the first Pakistani woman writing in English to be published in the Western avant-garde tradition. The book has been called "a contemporary masterpiece" Her work has appeared in Stimulus Response, The London Magazine,Trespass magazine, Skald magazine, Anemone Sidecar, Annetna Nepo, and Can We Have Our Ball Back. She was recently interviewed by the London Magazine and in 2008 was named as one of the top twelve to watch in the Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2281914,00.html . Her work is also available to hear on Poetcasting and is in brand new (as of June 2009) poetry collections ‘Sama Ghazal Salaam UK’ and a Shearsman anthology of UK women's avant garde poetries coming out in 2010. In December 2008 she was part of Double Visions: Art and Poetry at the Caroline Wiseman gallery along with the art of Eileen Cooper, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and the poetry of Apollinaire, Annie Freud, ee cummings amongst many other luminaries. She is also the co-producer of the successful La Langoustine Est Morte reading and performance series in London promoting international poetics. Other Poetry links: Review: http://www.kaurab.com/english/books/grimoire.html Her poems have appeared in STIMULS RESPOND, Snow Monkey, HOW2 , upcoming in www.openspaceindia.org (2009) Films * Ana-el-Haqq * The Sea and Medusa Education * MFA, MFA Program for Poets & Writers (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) * BA, Bennington College, Career * Guest Editor of New Loop. * Journalism: LondonDance.com Alternative London * La Langoustine Est Morte * Features and Reviews * Sascha Aurora reads poems at PoetCasting 
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