Amarnath Ravva lives 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, memory, documentary, and compassion. He enjoys manifesting his obsessions in video, music, hybrid forms and live performance. He is on the board of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator at Betalevel. In the past year he has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemble Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Machine Project, and Betalevel. See more at videopoetics.org.