Alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University of Stirling, Scotland (2017), Rochelle Potkar has read poetry at literature festivals in India, Bali, Iowa, Stirling, Glasgow, Hongkong, Ukraine, Hungary, Bangladesh, Macao, and the Gold Coast. Her writings have been translated into Arabic, Hungarian, French, Spanish, Marathi, and German. Her recent collection of short stories Bombay Hangovers (2021) was well-received. A few of her story ideas won the Pocketwala-Cinestaan Web Series Idea Contest 2021 for ‘Anthology of Bombay Stories: slice-of-life’.  

Her short stories have won or been nominated for prizes: Open Road Review 2016 winner for The Leaves of the Deodar; The Best of Asian Short Stories, Kitaab International, 2018 for Chit Mahal (The Enclave); The Best of Asian Speculative Short Stories, Kitaab International 2018 for Eternal Swirl; The DISQUIET International Literary prize, Lisbon 2019 notable entry for Parfum. 

She has been/is Poetry Editor at two magazines: The Bombay Review and the Joao-Roque Literary Journal. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Foundation, STAND, The Tampa Review, The Dhauli Review, The Freshwater Review, The Daily Star, Kritya, Muse India, Narrow Road, Six Seasons Review, and anthologies of Sahitya Akademi’s Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians anthology (Ed. Sudeep Sen), the Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Love Poems (Ed. Abhay K.), The Best Asian Poetry 2021 (Ed. Sudeep Sen), and The Red River Book of the Poetry of Dissent (Ed. Nabina Das). Her first screenplay was a quarter-finalist at the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting competition 2020, and an NFDC India Screenwriters' Lab selection 2018.