Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was a 2011-2013 Redline artist-in-residence, a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India) and will be the Understudy Denver artist-in-residence in September 2020. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2018, winner of ArtHyve's 2018 Archives as Muse Film grant and Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival 2019 and Cinema Diverse 2019) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She is an 8-year company member with Evolving Doors Dance and was recently a featured artist in Harper's Bazaar (India) as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has forthcoming publications in Foglifter and Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna). Serena is Assistant Professor at Seattle University. You can find out more at SerenaChopra.com