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Rajiv Mohabir and Priyanka Champaneri will be in conversation at Unabridged Bookstore to celebrate the launch of Mohabir’s new memoir Antiman.

A polyphonic memoir of the author’s coming of age as a queer Indo-Guyanese poet, in Antiman “Mohabir carves a vessel to contain his multitudes using the instruments of prose, song, poetry, and prayer” (Serena Morales, Books Are Magic’s Best LGBTQ+ Reads of 2021).

Mohabir and Champaneri are both winners of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing; Champaneri’s novel The City of Good Death is out now.

When: Thursday, June 24 at 7:00 pm CT / 8 pm ET

Where: Unabridged Bookstore (Chicago, IL). Order Antiman from Unabridged.

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021), The Cowherd’s Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His essays can be found in places like Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and he has a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. She received the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for The City of Good Death, her first novel.

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