Champa Bilwakesh

Champa Bilwakesh was born in India, earned her MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her fiction has been published in Kenyon Review, Monsoon Magazine, Sugar Mule, and India Current where it won prizes in the Katha contest. Her story “The Boston Globe Personal Line” was nominated for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, received honorable mention in the 2007 edition of Pushcart Prize, and has been translated into Italian for the online magazine, El-Ghibli. She lives in Andover, MA, where she produces TV shows for the community channel.