Background
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was born on March 6, 1969, in Dharamsala, India, to Kunga and Bahu Gyaltsen. Poet Tsering's parents fled Tibet in 1959. She was raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
86B, Nandi Vithi Rd, Near LSR college, N Block, Greater Kailash I, Lajpat Nagar 4, New Delhi, Delhi 110048, India
Dhompa earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi.
Amherst, MA 01003, United States
Dhompa received a Master of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132, United States
Dhompa received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from San Francisco State University.
(There is an inevitability implicit in the directness of T...)
There is an inevitability implicit in the directness of Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's poetry that leaves the reader quite unprepared for the sudden leaps in reality it then proposes.
https://www.amazon.com/Absent-Everyday-Tsering-Dhompa/dp/0974468770/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(My Rice Tastes Like the Lake echoes in the mind, mouth, a...)
My Rice Tastes Like the Lake echoes in the mind, mouth, and heart as its strangely calm English phrases settle into measured lines and stanzas. This is serious, beautiful, haunting work—a unique expression, in post-modern writing, of a contemporary Buddhist woman in exile, searching for a language capable of spanning her own past, present, and future. 'It is not enough to have one tongue. It cannot point to everything / and in every direction.
https://www.amazon.com/My-rice-tastes-like-lake/dp/0978766709/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and long...)
In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and longing, a daughter's pilgrimage to her mother's native Tibet becomes a journey of homecoming and self-discovery.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Home-Tibet-Memoir-Belonging/dp/1611803292/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was born on March 6, 1969, in Dharamsala, India, to Kunga and Bahu Gyaltsen. Poet Tsering's parents fled Tibet in 1959. She was raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal.
Dhompa earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, a Master of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from San Francisco State University.
Dhompa is the author of three books of poetry: My rice tastes like the lake (2011), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and Rules of the House (2002). She is also the author of the nonfiction book A Home in Tibet (2014). Dhompa’s first non-fiction book, Coming Home to Tibet was published in the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016.
Currently, Dhompa works as an assistant professor in the English Department at Villanova University.
(There is an inevitability implicit in the directness of T...)
2005(In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and long...)
2016(My Rice Tastes Like the Lake echoes in the mind, mouth, a...)
2011Through innovative structures and schemas, Dhompa poetry articulates the nostalgia of displaced Tibetans, recording the memories of elders in Tibetan communities.
Fluent in several languages and dialects - including Tibetan, Hindi, and Nepali - Dhompa writes in English.
Tsering was married to Tashi Dhondup but their marriage ended in divorce. Tsering has one child, Yangcheu Lhamo.