Ranbir Sidhu

biography

Ranbir Sidhu was born in London and grew up in California. He studied archaeology at UC Berkeley and worked as an archaeologist in California, Nevada, Israel and France.

Ranbir is a 2008 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and winner of the Pushcart Prize. His stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Fence Magazine (forthcoming), The Georgia Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, and Other Voices.

He has been awarded residencies by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, and Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, California and was recently the 2006-07 writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a 2007 Edward F. Albee Fellow at The Barn in Montauk, NY. His plays have been developed at the MCC Theater, LaMama, Disha, The Matrix Theater, and CUNY's Prelude Festival. He is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights Coalition and the Dramatists Guild.

He has also collaborated on projects with Flux Factory, GlowLab, Miwa Koizumi, Mary Lou Newmark and the Institute of Infintely Small Things. He studied with the novelist Monique Wittig and was a core member of now defunct Chaat Performance Collective. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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