A British-Indian emigrant to the United States, Bhanu Kapil

lives in Colorado, where she teaches writing at Naropa Universityand in the MFA low-residency program at Goddard College. She is theauthor of five full-length works of poetry/prose, including, mostrecently, Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books, 2015). She hasbeen incubating "Ban" through performances, talks, andcollaborations in the U.S., India, and the U.K.