UCSD New Writing Series: Amarnath Ravva
Blending myth with interviews and first-person narrative, American Canyon uses prose, documentary footage, and still photos to recount the fragmented and ever evolving story of one person’s apprehension of the ghosts of history. This narrative of a son’s love for his mother and the ritual he performs for her takes us from California to Rameswaram, the southern tip of the Indian peninsula.
California-based writer Amarnath Ravva has performed at LACMA, Machine Project, the MAK Center at the Schindler House, the Hammer Museum, USC, Pomona, CalArts, and the Sorbonne. In addition to his writing practice, he is a member of the site-specific ambient music supergroup Ambient Force 3000 and for the past eight years he has helped run and curate events at Betalevel, a venue for social experimentation and hands-on culture located in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. His first book, American Canyon, was published by Kaya Press in 2014 and was a finalist for the Pen Center USA literary award in Creative NonFiction. Info: [email protected].