Nishi Chawla is a writer and an academician of long standing. She has written and directed three feature films. She has also published seven volumes of poetry, ten plays, and two novels.

Nishi Chawla has taught theatre and poetry for nearly four decades, starting out as a young and tenured Professor of English Literature in Delhi University, India, in her early twenties. She did earn her PhD in English from the George Washington University, Washington D.C., when she moved with her family to USA in the 1990s, and has been teaching for more than two decades in USA as well (16 years at the University of Maryland and now at Thomas Edison State University, New Jersey, since 2013).

Nishi Chawla has made a movie titled MIXED UP whose story is set in the 1970s, and that is about inter racial love. She has written and directed it herself.

Here is a link to a trailer of her movie on inter cultural love. The movie is a composite of Indian, Iranian, and American culture.

https://vimeo.com/490543200/08ede20aa7

She is now considering making a movie on mental issues based on a screenplay that she had written about two years ago. "The Strange Case of Normalcy" is a subtle examination of how each of us lives on the edge of normalcy while we construct an illusion of "the normal" by which we define ourselves.

"The Strange Case of Normalcy" is a subtle examination of how each of us lives on the edge of normalcy while we construct an illusion of "the normal" by which we define ourselves.

Nishi Chawla's website is www.nishichawla.com