Ramola D

Ramola D is the author of Invisible Season (WWPH, 1998), which co-won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry award in 1998, and Temporary Lives, awarded the 2008 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and finalist in the 2010 Library of Virginia Fiction awards. A Discovery/The Nation finalist and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the recipient of a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and writer-interviews have appeared in various journals and anthologies including previously in Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Northwest Review, Green Mountains Review, Writer’s Chronicle, Indiana Review, recently in Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (OR Books, 2015), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), and also in Best American Poetry 1994, Full Moon on K Street: Poems by Washington, DC Poets (Plan B Press, 2009), and Best American Fantasy 2007. Her fiction was shortlisted in Best American Stories 2007, and included in Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington DC Women Writers (Paycock Press, 2006). She holds an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University and a BS in Physics and an MBA from the University of Madras. She has most recently taught creative writing at The George Washington University and The Writer’s Center, Bethesda. She lives currently in the Boston area where she edits the online literary journal Delphi Literary Review, runs the media site and blog The Everyday Concerned Citizen, and the broadcast station Ramola D Reports (on Youtube, Vimeo, Bitchute) and teaches online art, natural science, and creative writing workshops at ArtCreateWrite.com.

Ramola D has written 15 posts for Delphi Quarterly

Finally! Delphi’s Summer Issue On the Sands

Posted by Ramola D ⋅ July 16, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

Beaches are white, skies are blue, seas glittery with sun–it must be summer! Welcome to our bumper summer issue, our third so far of Delphi Quarterly, our recently-launched online quarterly for writer and filmmaker interviews: Volume 1, Issue 3, Summer 2013. Please note, our spring issue with its genre-bending interviews–with Tania Hershman, Gretchen Henderson, Minal Hijratwalla of … Continue reading →

Delphi’s Spring Issue is Here

Posted by Ramola D ⋅ April 15, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

Welcome to the second issue of Delphi Quarterly, our new online quarterly for writer and filmmaker interviews. We are pleased to report we are still well and thriving and excited to launch our spring issue, Volume I, Issue 2, Spring 2013. Also, please note our entire Premiere issue which debuted in Jan 2013 with its stellar … Continue reading →

Welcome to Delphi Quarterly’s Premiere Issue

Posted by Ramola D ⋅ January 15, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

Welcome to Delphi Quarterly, our new online quarterly for writer interviews. We are excited to launch our first issue, Volume I, Issue 1, Winter 2013. About Delphi As writers ourselves, the editors of Delphi Quarterly envision this journal as a diverse and inclusive space for conversations on craft with writers across genres—fiction, poetry, drama, ecological … Continue reading →

Delphi Quarterly to launch Jan 15, 2013

Posted by Ramola D ⋅ January 1, 2013 ⋅ 2 Comments

Happy New Year! Delphi is putting together an exciting set of interviews for our launch in mid-Jan. We’re also working on setting up some great features for future issues. Stay tuned. We hope to have this first issue up Jan 15. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the world, here’s wishing you a marvelously productive and … Continue reading →

Delphi Launches January 2013

Posted by Ramola D ⋅ October 22, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment

Stay tuned! Delphi launches in January 2013. Delphi is a new online quarterly seeking to publish interviews with literary fiction writers, ecological and creative non-fiction writers, and poets, no matter if emerging or established, regional or national, little-recognized, little-known, or lit up in lights–Delphi aims to be inclusive, and to create a space for the newest and most obscure writer to … Continue reading →