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The View from Zero Bridge

Lynn Chandhok has worked as a writer and teacher since she graduated from Swarthmore College in 1985. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Sewanee Theological Review, the Journal and the Dark Horse and are forthcoming in the Antioch Review. Phul Chunaan, a chapbook, is forthcoming from Aralia Press. Lynn lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters. About her discovery of a vocation in poetry, she says, “I was born and raised in Pittsburgh but spent many childhood summers in Kashmir with my father’s family. When I graduated from Swarthmore, I worked for several years as a technical writer before completing a master’s degree in teaching at Tufts in 1989. I moved to Brooklyn in 1990, and I’ve lived here since then, working as a middleand high-school English teacher, as a freelance writer and as a mom to my two daughters, Meena and Priya. “In 1999 I began writing poetry, and I was lucky to meet a few poets who encouraged me to think about writing in meter. Once I figured it out, I fell in love with blank verse, and then with other forms, and recently with rhyme. Working in form gives me the distance and structure I need. “In 2000 I started traveling back to India more frequently, with my own daughters. The conflict in Kashmir keeps us from spending time there. Instead, we travel every year to the Kumaon region of Uttaranchal in the Himalayan foothills. Negotiating these places, families, histories, politics and geographies, I always have plenty to write about—just not enough time.”