Ashwini Bhasi is a bioinformatician and interdisciplinary artist from Kerala, India. Her hybrid work merges scientific data, poetry and visual art to explore the lived experience of chronic illness and disability. Ashwini has over 18 years of professional experience analyzing large-scale human genome datasets to identify genetic markers and mutations in hereditary disorders and cancers. She is the first-author of multiple peer-reviewed research articles that address the growing need for user-centered software design for scientific discovery. A Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar, Ashwini is the recipient of the Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review, a Good Hart Artist Residency, a Voices of Color Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and a Room Project Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, Redivider, Frontier Poetry, Honey Literary, RHINO, The Offing and elsewhere. Musth, the winner of the 2020 CutBank chapbook contest, is her first poetry collection.

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