Rochelle Potkar
Rochelle Potkar is a prize-winning poet, author, and screenwriter. Her books include Four Degrees of Separation (2016), Paper Asylum (2018, shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020), Bombay Hangovers (2021), and Coins in Rivers (2024, shortlisted for The Wise Owl Literary Award 2025). Alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program, USA, and a Charles Wallace Fellow, University of Stirling, she has served as a creative-writing mentor at the Iowa International Writing Program and teaches poetry at the Himalayan Writing Retreat. Her writing has been translated into multiple languages, and her short film Salad (Shezari) was released in November 2025. The D’Costa Family (2025) is her debut novel.
Year: 2026, 2019, 2018
