Amar Ravva lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is working on his first manuscript, a work of non-fiction called American Canyon, that blends South Indian and Californian history, memoir, poetry, documentary, and compassion. When he is not writing or producing art, he teaches critical thinking, argumentation, and writing skills to the students of Glendale Community College, works as a video engineer for the interdisciplinary theatre company About Productions, and freelances as a web designer.

May 2004 M.F.A. Writing & Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts.

May 2000 B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley. Undergraduate Thesis "Antigone Before the Law" - Faculty Advisor: Judith Butler.

Spring 2005 - Present Adjunct Instructor, English Department, Glendale Community College. Click here for English 101: "Los Angeles & the Imagination of Disaster" & English 120: "Freshman English- Current Events & Media" syllabi/course outlines. Also taught English 104: "Critical Thinking & Argumentation" in the spring of 2005.

Spring 2005 Adjunct Instructor, English 103: "Critiical Thinking & Argumentative Writing" & English 52: "Freshman English", Liberal Arts Division, Cerritos Community College.

Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 Teaching Assistant, Writing Arts, California Institute of the Arts.

Spring 2003 Teaching Assistant, Conservation & the Environment, California Institute of the Arts.

Spring 1996 Undergraduate Student Instructor, English 98/198 "Contexts of Writing", U.C. Berkeley. Developed and taught a creative writing class under the guidance of faculty advisor Ishmael Reed.