interview with shebana coelho

Shebana Coelho grew up in India with a Muslim mother and a Catholic father. She's an award-winning writer, performance artist and facilitator of workshops.  Her work is about expressing creativity to liberate us from fear and other colonizations and to celebrate our passion. She received a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Fulbright grant. Leaving cities behind, she started traveling all over the world to immense landscapes like Tierra del Fuego, Mongolia, Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico. Shebana found that the encounter with wild natural spaces re-arranged her internal geography. From these experiences emerged the term, "Faraway is Close," a sort of mantra.

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