About

Pragya Bhagat is a spoken word poet, award-winning essayist, TEDx speaker, and author of two books. Her work explores the intersections between natural ecosystems, belonging, and the politics of vulnerability.

 

Pragya’s writing has been featured in the BBC, The Alipore Post, the Huffington Post, and The Wire, amongst others.

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She is the founder of the Poetry Circle, a fortnightly community space based in North Goa and a founding member of the Backyard Poets Collective. She has performed her poetry at Magnetic Fields, the Goa Arts and Literature Festival, and Spoken Fest, Asia’s largest poetry festival. Pragya has created performative exhibitions for the Museum of Christian Art and the Sunaparanta Art Gallery.

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Pragya is the recipient of the Orange Flower Award for writing on mental health and the UPES Students Choice Award for Memoir Writing. Her latest book, Swimming in Our Oceans, was chosen by Bound as one of the best nonfiction books of 2022.

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Over the past five years, Pragya has taught over a hundred creative writing workshops and coached dozens of emerging and mid-career writers across the world.

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Pragya is an alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is currently based in Goa and working on her next book, represented by Writer's Side.