Amarnath Ravva received an M.F.A. in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from University of California Berkeley. He has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemble Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Machine Project, and Betalevel. He has exhibited work at Telic, Los Angeles; Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles; Pond, San Francisco; and Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to presenting his work in numerous readings, he has writing forthcoming in Encyclopedia vol. 2, Requited, and the anthology Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry from University of Arkansas Press. He is on the board of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator at Betalevel. Ravva lives and works in Los Angeles.

May 2004. M.F.A. Writing & Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts.

May 2000. B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley. Undergraduate Thesis "Antigone Before the Law" — Faculty Advisor: Judith Butler.

Spring 2005 – Present. Adjunct Faculty, English Division, Glendale Community College.

Fall 2003 – Spring 2004. Teaching Assistant, Writing Arts, California Institute of the Arts.

Spring 2003. Teaching Assistant, Conservation & the Environment, California Institute of the Arts.

Spring 1996. Undergraduate Student Instructor, English 98/198 "Contexts of Writing", U.C. Berkeley. Developed and taught a creative writing class under the guidance of faculty advisor Ishmael Reed.

October 14 – 17, 2009. “Peripatetic Landscapes” with Amina Cain, Jennifer Karmin, & josé felipe alvergue. &Now Conference and Festival of Innovative Literature and Art, SUNY Buffalo, NY.

November 21 – 22, 2008. “atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents-groundless-textured-visible-droplets-interstellar-crystalline” with Will Alexander, Teresa Carmody, and Mark Wallace. LA-Lit: Clouds, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA.

April 2010. Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, Ed. by Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam, & Neela Banerji. Fayatteville: University of Arkansas Press.

Spring 2010. Requited. Ed. by Amanda Marbais. Selections from American Canyon – “Rishikesh I & II”.

Spring 2010. The Encyclopedia Project vol 2. Ed. by Miranda Melis, Tisa Bryant, & Kate Schatz. “Geomancy”.

Spring 2009. Drunken Boat Issue #10, Ed. by Ravi Shankar. Selections from American Canyon.

Fall 2006. Trepan. Issue #5, Ed. by Jason Brown & Mathew Timmons, Selections from American Canyon — "Shim's Flat" & "--:--:--:--".

Fall 2005. nocturnes, (re)view of the literary arts. Ed. by giovanni singleton, Issue #4. Selections from American Canyon.

Fall 2002. nocturnes, (re)view of the literary arts. Issue #2. "Rakhi" and "Palani".

Fall 2001. nocturnes, (re)view of the literary arts. Issue #1. "Radhika" and "Podillama".

August 2000. Interlope, A journal of Asian American poetics and issues. Ed. by Summi Kaipa, Issue #5. "Airline Music", "Barking Spiders", and "Bear Scat Flat".

May 1998. Interlope, Issue #1. "From, Reno Among Controlled Forest Fires", "I am Burning a Pig in my Room, Apollinaire", "Dead Watch Batteries", & "Waiting, Cooking".

1997 – 1998. The Berkeley Poetry Review. Ed. by Amar Ravva & Amanda Davidson, Issue #31. "Lassen National Park" and "Waiting, Cooking".

1995 – 1997. The Berkeley Poetry Review. Ed. by Summi Kaipa & Amanda Davidson, Issue #30. "Grapefruit and Blackberries".

January 18, 2009. Transmissions: Signal to Noise Ratio, as part of the Moles Not Molar Reading Series and Nexus RADIO.

December 5, 2005. LA-Lit: Amarnath Ravva, Interview + Podcast co-hosted & produced by Stephanie Rioux & Mathew Timmons, Beta Level, Los Angeles, CA.

September 7, 2006. “Knock, Knock – Whose Home” by Peter Frank. LA Weekly, September 2006. Online & Print. Los Angeles, CA.

March 11, 2005. “State of the Art” by Chris Joseph. trAce Online Writing Centre, The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.

August 19 – September 23, 2006. Mixed media installation: Suburban Geomancy, in Knock, Knock — Whose Home?, Acorn Gallery, Highland Park, CA.

March 11 – April 10, 2005. Labels/Tags for Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle, at Pond, San Francisco, CA.

September 20 – October 20, 2004. Single channel video installation: Lufkin Project, in Digitally Propelled Ideas 2004, Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, CalPoly, Pomona, CA.

May 8, 2004. Screening of 1977, for the MFA Writing Showcase at RedCat, Los Angeles, CA.

March 9 – 12, 2004. Four channel video installation: Awakening the Pheasants, with musical performance by Amar Ravva, Kadet Kuhne, Jason Brown and d.g. eng, Black & White Studio, CalArts, Valencia, CA.

March 8 – 11, 2003. Single channel video installation: Lufkin Project, in the Black & White Studio, CalArts, Valencia, CA.

Feb 18 – March 1 2003. Art show: Palani, stills from documentary video work, South India, Summer 2001 in the “CUBE”, CalArts, Valencia, CA.

August 23, 2009. The Poetic Research Bureau, with Amina Cain, Los Angeles, CA.

April 30, 2009. Neo-Benshi Night, with Neelanjana Banerjee, Corey Fogel, Jen Hofer, Cat Lamb, Erika Staiti and Konrad Steiner. Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA.

April 19, 2009. Christy McCaffrey and Sara Newey’s Forest. “fairies/furies musical performance, and a reading by Amar Ravva”, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA.

April 17, 2009. Christy McCaffrey and Sara Newey’s Forest. “Acoustic Force 300 performance, and reading by Christine Wertheim”, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA.

March 28, 2009. “Land lies in water; it is shadowed green” - A program of time-based work and reading. Curated by Ryan Inouye, Elana Mann & Jean-Paul Leonard. Los Angeles, CA.

Nov 15, 2008. “Ambient Haircut” at LACMA for “A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA” - concert by Ambient Force 3000. Belalevel, Los Angeles, CA.

Nov 1, 2008. Darkness… of the Dead – a concert in total darkness by Ambient Force 3000. Belalevel, Los Angeles, CA.

Mar 22, 2008. Duration for the Dark – a concert in total darkness by Ambient Force 3000 . Belalevel, Los Angeles, CA.

January 19 -21, 2007. “Conduction in the Catacombs”, a play by Will Alexander, music by Amarnath Ravva & Jason Brown. Betalevel, Los Angeles, CA.

October 15, 2006. LA-Lit 1 Year Anniversary, Panel discussion and performances with Will Alexander, Diane Ward, Guy Bennett, Anthony McCann, Mathew Timmons, Stephanie Rioux & Ara Shirinyan, Beta Level, Los Angeles, CA.

August 27, 2006. Smell Last Sunday of the Month Reading Series, with Rodney Koeneke, Sawako Nakayasu & Joseph Mosconi, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA.

February 21, 2006. Nico Vassilakis and Amarnath Ravva, Reading with Nico Vassilakis and performance by the Global Village Collective of "Flag" by Ara Shirinyan, Beta Level, Los Angeles, CA.

February 4, 2006. The Moving Word, curated by David Gatten & Jen Hofer, with performances by Andrew Choate & Maggie Nelson and films by Rebecca Baron, Susan Simpson, David Wilson, Lee Lych & Lee Anne Schmitt. Los Angeles, CA.

August 13, 2005. Red Rover Series, with Emily Abendroth & Chris Nagler, The Spare Room, Chicago, IL.

March 19, 2005. Moles not Molars reading series, with Amina Cain & Janet Neigh, La Tazza, Philadelphia, PA.

October 13, 2003. Diaspora Poetics Series, with Jaimie Cortez, New Langton Arts, S.F., CA.

March 16, 2003. Diesel Bookstore, Oakland, with Patricia Ikeda, Elizabeth Treadwell, Tiffany Higgins, Summi Kaipa, Dodie Bellamy, Aja Duncan, devorah major, Brenda Hillman, Khan Wong, & Elizabeth Robinson for nocturnes #2.

August 15, 2002. Performed in Eileen Tabios’ “Poem Tree” for Interlope #8, Locus, S.F., CA.

August 11, 2002. Kearney Street Workshop, San Francisco, with Summi Kaipa, titled “Desi Voices”.

September 23, 2001. Diesel Bookstore, Oakland, with Chris Daniels, Aja Duncan, Brenda Hillman, Arnold Kemp, Kevin Killian, David Meltzer, & "D. Scot" Miller for nocturnes #1.

February 24, 2001. Interlope #6 release celebration with contributors Alvin Lu and Chris Chen. Film by Tatsu Aoki with live musical accompaniment by Yasuhiro Otani. Asian American Cultural Association, Oakland, CA. December 2000.

Spring 2005 – Present. Associate Editor and member of the editorial board of Critical Studies.

Fall 2001 – Present. Board of Advisors, nocturnes, (re)view of the literary arts.

May 19 – 22, 2005. Editor & designer of a web art piece for nocturnes, (re)view of the literary arts, shown at AfroGeeks 2005, Center for Black Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara.

November 2003. Editor of the Blue/Print CD with Douglas Kearney and giovanni singleton for nocturnes #3, which focused on ‘the blues’.

2002 – 2003. Editorial assistant for Black Clock, ed. by Steve Erickson and Bruce Bauman.

1997 – 2000. Editor & designer of The Berkeley Poetry Review: Issue #31, the 25th anniversary issue, #32, and corresponding website for that issue.