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Purvi Shah nurtures art and social justice advocacy as portals for healing and transformation.

Purvi is the winner of a South Asian Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women. Her most recent poetry book, Miracle Marks (Northwestern UP, 2019), investigates gender violence and sacred survivals.

Purvi’s prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), plumbs migration and loss. During the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with Kundiman, Purvi directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project amplifying Asian American voices.

With Anjali Deshmukh, she creates interactive public art like Missed Fortunes, a community archive which documented pandemic rituals through poetry & visual ar ...more

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