Tanya Mendonsa
Tanya Mendonsa is a poet and a painter. She graduated in English from Calcutta, and at 21 moved to Paris, to paint,major in French literature at the Sorbonne and run a chaotic language school.
After 19 years in Europe, she returned to live in the river-laced village of Moira in Goa, with the abstract painter Antonio E Costa, two dogs and two cats.
She has exhibited her paintings widely, but poetry is her focus. In her work, she draws deeply from a poetic tradition of the wonders of the natural world, which illuminate her first book, The Dreaming House.
After 19 years in Europe, she returned to live in the river-laced village of Moira in Goa, with the abstract painter Antonio E Costa, two dogs and two cats.
She has exhibited her paintings widely, but poetry is her focus. In her work, she draws deeply from a poetic tradition of the wonders of the natural world, which illuminate her first book, The Dreaming House.
