Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, and a visual and performance artist. She has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Serena is a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a RedLine Artist In-Residence and a Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). Her third book, A Catalog of Future Mercies, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026. She has two previous books, This Human (Coconut Books, 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press, 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2019, Official Selection at Frameline43 and Seattle Queer Film Festival) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She was a featured artist in Harper's Bazaar (India), Revry, as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has recent publications with The Academy of American Poets, Burrow Press Review, Sink, Foglifter, and the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (Washington State Book Award, 2021). She also has critical essays in Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna Collective, 2019), Rehearsing Racial Equity: A Critical Anthology on Anti-Racism and Repair in the Arts (Amherst College Press, forthcoming 2025) and in the republication of Judy Grahn’s The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition (Sinister Wisdom, Fall 2023). Along with choreographer Kate Speer and artist Frankie Toan, Serena co-directed No Place to Go, an immersive, artist-made queer haunted house in Denver. Serena is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.