Conversations With Birds Priyanka Kumar by Priyanka Kumar 9781571313997, 1571313990 instant download after payment.

Her critically acclaimed debut novel, TAKE WING & FLY HERE explores our changing relationship with the outdoors in the American West. Kumar was awarded the Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency in 2020. She is also a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, New Mexico/New Visions Governor's Award, Canada Council for the Arts Grant, Ontario Arts Council Literary Award, & an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Fellowship. 

She received her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, & wrote, directed & produced the feature documentary THE SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD, starring Martin Scorsese & Ravi Shankar. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, was "Pick of the Week" in the Los Angeles Times, & is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. An alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kumar has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz, the University of Southern California, & the Pima Writers' Workshop. She spoke on "Ecological Fiction" at the AWP Conference in Washington, DC. 

She is a contributor to the anthology, FIRST AND WILDEST: THE GILA AT 100 & the NEW MEXICO POETRY ANTHOLOGY. Her new books, THE LIGHT BETWEEN APPLE TREES & CONVERSATIONS WITH BIRDS are forthcoming. She serves as a Board Director of the Leopold Writing Program.