Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a writer, performer, and arts consultant from India living in Ireland. Her work's been published by Dedalus Press, Lifeboat Press, Little Island, Poetry Ireland, Banshee, and The Stinging Fly amongst others. 

She's been the recipient of multiple Arts Council Awards, one of which supported her being the 2023 Writer in Residence for the Institute of Physics. In 2024 she was selected as a Goethe-Institute Studio Quantum Artist in Residence, and is currently under commission with Skein Press as part of the Play It Forward Fellowship. 

We talk about her very brief AI experiment with poetry, how her sense of Irishness has developed since we last spoke, her participation in 'Queering The Green' , observations about queer migrant space in literature in Ireland, her recent discovery she's AuDHD + more.

And she reads several of her beautiful poems for us.

You can check her website - https://www.chandrika.ie/ and her instagram: @chandrikanm.art 

• Queering The Green, edited by Paul Maddern, and published by Lifeboat Press.
• ‘Mapping the Depths of Us: a pamphlet of physics poems’ by Chandrika - which you can download for free. 
• The anthology of essays by autistic Irish writers that Chandrika also wrote for - Wired Our Own Way published by New Island Press. 

Wander is produced by Bairbre Flood (@bairbreflood) with thanks to funding from the Arts Council of Ireland.