Widely anthologized, Rochelle Potkar is a prize-winning poet, author, and screenwriter.
Her books include Four Degrees of Separation, Paper Asylum - shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020, and Bombay Hangovers.
Alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University of Stirling, she was invited thrice to Iowa’s International Writing Programs of Summer Institute 2019 and Between the Lines 2022, 2023 as a mentor.
Her first screenplay was an NFDC Screenwriters Lab selection and won a quarterfinalist at the Atlanta Film Festival. Two of her projects were in the Top 30 Book to Box Office vertical of NFDC Film Bazaar 2023, Goa.
Her short film scripts Catharsis won Highly Recommended at the 2023 International Literary Prize by Hammond House, UK and Salad was on the Selected List of Mumbai Indie Film Society competition 2024.
Her poetry manuscript Coins in Rivers is due in April 2024.
