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Ranbir Sidhu is a 2008 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and winner of the Pushcart Prize. His stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Fence, The Georgia Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva, Hot Metal Bridge, The Missouri Review, and Other Voices. His collection of stories The Good Poet of Africa was a finalist for the 2008 Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction. A new story is forthcoming in The Barcelona Review.
He has been
awarded residencies by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, and Villa
Montalvo Center for the Arts, California, and was the 2006-07 writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a 2007 Edward F. Albee Fellow at The Barn in Montauk, NY.
He is the author of the full-length plays Conquistadors, True East..., and Sangeet. His work for theater has been supported and developed by MCC Theater, LaMama, Disha, The Matrix Theater, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swingspace Program, the September 11th Fund, and CUNY's Prelude Festival. He is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights Coalition and the Dramatists Guild.
Most recently, he was awarded a 2010/11 new theater commission from the New York State Council on the Arts for a play on the Partition of India and Pakistan.
He has also collaborated on projects with Flux Factory, GlowLab, Miwa Koizumi, Mary Lou Newmark and the Institute of Infintely Small Things. He recently moderated the book club which formed the basis for the Flux Factory/Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts show examining Tete-Michel Kpomassie's extraordinary memoir, An African In Greenland. He studied with novelist Monique Wittig and was a core member of now defunct Chaat Performance Collective.
Ranbir's heritage is Indian. He grew up in London and California, and has lived and worked in France, Sri Lanka, Israel, and Egypt. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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