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Bhargavi C. Mandava was born in Hyderabad, India and grew up in New York City. She graduated from NYU with a degree in Journalism. Her music criticism was published in The Village Voice, Spin, Details and others.

 

Bhargavi’s novel Where the Oceans Meet was published in 1996. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Konundrum Engine Literary Review, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Bangtale International and others. Her poetry has been anthologized in the collections Through a Child’s Eyes, Another Way to Dance and Indivisible, which won a Northern California Book Award in 2011. Her essays appear in The Meanings of Dress, Young Wives’ Tales, Body Outlaws and Listen Up. As a screenwriter, she co-wrote Kiss Me Again (2006) and received story by credit.

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In 2006, Bhargavi was the Curator of Literature for Artwallah and also collaborated on the Uncharted Storytelling Project. In 2011 and 2013, she was a judge for the Pomegranate Short Story Competition, a nationwide contest in India. In 2013, she participated in Voltage Poetry (voltagepoetry.com), a project co-edited by Kim Addonizio and Michael Theune, exploring poetry’s greatest turns. In 2015, Bhargavi was a participating poet in Muse India’s Ekphrasis Poetry and Art Project. Bhargavi was a recipient of a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship in fiction, and was awarded residencies at Hedgebrook, Ledig House and Blue Mountain Center.