Anisfield-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Writer Named

Rohan Chhetri is a poet and translator who earned a PhD from the University of Houston in 2023. For the past two years, he’s been a postdoc at Texas Christian University, where he taught Asian American and World Literature courses as well as creative writing workshops. Chhetri has an MFA from Syracuse University and did his undergraduate work at Mumbai University. He is a Kundiman Fellow who won the Kundiman Poetry Prize for his 2021 book Lost Hurt or In Transit Beautiful. He will be teaching two different ENGL 385 special topics classes called “Writing with Anisfield-Wolf” on Tuesdays and Thursdays here at CWRU in Spring of 2026; both are hybrid literature and creative writing seminars.