Rhony Bhopla

Rhony Bhopla is a poet, book critic, and visual artist. Her poems have appeared in PRISM International, The Hopper, Notre Dame Review, Cherry Moon: Emerging Voices from the Asian Diaspora, and The Good Life Review. Her book reviews can be read in Northwest Review and Harvard Review. Rhapsody, a series of acrylic and collage artworks was on show in the Promise Me a Rose Garden exhibit 2023 at the Kennedy Gallery in Sacramento. Her artworks are a regular feature of the Big Names Small Art (BNSA) art auction for the Crocker Art Museum. Rhony was awarded the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Scholarship along with a teaching assistantship at Pacific University, and hosted two Mapmakers Alumni Institute webinars featuring Shivanee Ramlochan, Rajiv Mohabir, and Sudeep Sen on the topic of Global Perspectives: Ecopoetics and Eco-writing. Rhony Bhopla serves as the Vice President of the Alumni Association Board of Representatives at Pacific University. She is a recipient of a 2023 Fellowship in the Anaphora Arts Emerging Critics Program. She received the Pacific University Alumni Association's Emerging Leader Award in 2024. She volunteers for the Sacramento Medical Reserve Corps and works as a science educator with Sierra Nevada Journeys. When she is not writing or painting, Rhony enjoys cooking, gardening, and hiking.

Conference Presentations: Popular Culture Association 2022, Furious Flower Poetry Conference IV Worlds of Black Poetry 2024; Fellowships: Rooted & Written 2019, Anaphora Emerging Critics Program 2023.