Karan Kapoor

Poet

Blacksburg, VA
Virginia US

Author's Bio

Karan Kapoor is an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech. They have been awarded or placed for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, Frontier Global Poetry Prize,and Bellevue Literary Review Prize. A finalist for the Tusculum Review and Iron Horse Literary Reviewchapbook prizes, their poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in AGNI, Shenandoah, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. Their fiction is forthcoming in JOYLAND and the other side of hope. Their translations  have appeared in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They are the Editor-in-Chief of ONLY POEMS (onlypoems.net). You can find them at: karankapoor.net

Education: 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Bob Hicok, J.M. Coetzee, Lydia Davis, Lydia Yuknavitch, Agha Shahid Ali, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kaveh Akbar

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
BIPOC, Indian, Indian American
Born in: 
New Delhi, DL
India
Delhi
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Last update: Sep 27, 2023