Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Villanova University and moved to the US from Kathmandu when she was 25. Her most recent work is The Politics of Sorrow (2025). Other works include the chapbook Revolute (2021) and three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday, and Rules of the House. Dhompa's first non-fiction book, A Home in Tibet, was published by Penguin India. Dhompa lives in the Philadelphia area.

As of September 2026