Jay Deshpande, author of Love the Stranger (YesYes Books, 2015), was born in Austin, Texas, and received an undergraduate degree from Harvard and an MFA in poetry from Columbia, where he also taught. He runs Brooklyn’s Metro Rhythm Reading Series, and his poem “Keeping Up” won Third Place in Narrative’s Fourth Annual Poetry Contest. Deshpande lives in New York City.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- On the Meaning of Love, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Keeping Up, poetry, in Winter 2013