Anushka Anastasia Solomon, is a former Denver Post columnist, and Evergreen, Colorado poet. In 1995, she won the 3rd prize in the IV National New Straits Times - Shell Short Story Competition. A graduate, of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, she transferred from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism, to study creative writing under the late Jamaican poet laureate, and professor of writing, Andrew Salkey. Anushka taught English in Malaysia, to America and Australia bound students. She has been in voluntary exile from Malaysia since her conversion to Christianity in 1998. Her published works and blog can be viewed at http://www.AtTheWindow.us/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS/PERFORMANCES
2007-I Ought, for Margaret Hassan (CARE Int. aid worker)-Relief Journal, Christian Quarterly Expression
2007-I’d Leave The Motherland-Relief Journal, Christian Quarterly Expression
2007-Place of Birth: fill that in-Relief Journal, Christian Quarterly Expression
2006-Finalist, Mad Blood Literary Arts Award
2006-Giving Bigotry No Sanction, MalaysiaKini.com
2006-The Malaysian Dream, MalaysiaKini.com
2006-3rd Prize, Poetry Slam 101, Arapahoe Community College
2006-Malaysia, OIC can set the pace for reform, MalaysiaKini.com
2006-History Class, MalaysiaKini.com – award winning Independent press.
2006-Signing The Manifesto, Sincerely, The Canyon Courier
2006-Moonlight Sonata in Colorado, Mountain Connection
2006-Vincent, Irises Everywhere, Mountain Connection
2006-For Bailey Residents, Mountain Connection
2005-Featured Poet, Mad Blood’s Five Strong Women
2005-Mad Blood #5 readings
2005-Poets’ Group Puts Truth To Work, Canyon Courier, May 11,2005
2005-Imam Paints Idyllic Picture of Islam, Columbine Courier, March 9th 2005
2004-Three Poems of Freedom, MalaysiaKini, Oct 22., 2004
2003-Playing The Religious Card, The Denver Post, April 18
2002-Among The Holy Cows, The Denver Post, December 20.
2002-We Must Take Sides, The Denver Post, November 15.
2002-Silent All These Years, The Denver Post, October 18.
2002-City of Dreams: New York! New York!, The Denver Post, September 20.
2002-A Few Confessions, The Denver Post, August 02.
2002-Is Uncle Sam Sleeping?, The Denver Post, July 19.
2002-Fake Diamonds at Dinner, The Denver Post, June 21.
2002-Apartheid Malaysia, The Denver Post, May 31.
2002-On Arranged Marriages, The Denver Post, May 17
2002-Loving My Land, Dying Inside, New Internationalist, May edition
2002-Hinduism and the Hindu, Speaker, The Road 2002, Colorado Christian University
2001-A Prayer for America, Colorado Serenity, November 2001
2001-Girls Lives Worth Living, Speaker/Poet, International Women of Vision Conference
1995-At The Window -3rd Prize, New Straits Times - Shell Short Story Competition, a Malaysian national competition.

CONTACT/WEBSITE
Web:    http://www.AtTheWindow.us/
Contact:  through website
Country:  currently residing in the US