18 Facts About Sushma Joshi

Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer, filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

From 1998 to 2000, Joshi worked with the Harvard School of Public Health to implement the Global Reproductive Health Forum, a health and rights program, in South Asia.

Sushma Joshi traveled to Mumbai, Delhi and Dacca to bring together a broad coalition of partners in this reproductive health and rights network.

In 2004, Sushma Joshi joined as staff writer at the newly formed The Nation Weekly, a political news weekly in Kathmandu.

Sushma Joshi consulted for the UNDP's Access to Justice research program from October 2004, during the height of the civil conflict.

Sushma Joshi wrote her play "I Killed My Best Friend's Father," about two girls and their friendship post-conflict, in 2007.

Sushma Joshi received a writer fellowship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2000.

Sushma Joshi was awarded a residency at the Bellagio Center, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, in Bellagio, Italy, in 2006.

Sushma Joshi was a featured writer at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2009.

Sushma Joshi has received fellowships from the Toyota Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, as well as a seed fund from the Hubert Bals Fund in the Netherlands.

Sushma Joshi was a jury member of the Indigenous Film Festival in Nepal in 2009.

Sushma Joshi was a member of a three-judge panel for the film competition on global warming sponsored by the British Council and Department for International Development in Kathmandu in 2010.

In 2014, Sushma Joshi consulted and researched for the script of "Singha Durbar," a fictional TV series featuring a female prime minister, produced by Search for Common Ground and funded by USAID.

In 2004, Sushma Joshi had a solo exhibit "Blue Nepal" at Gallery Nine in Kathmandu.

Sushma Joshi finished her education at Mahendra Bhawan and Siddhartha Vanasthali High School in Kathmandu.

Sushma Joshi went to the US at age 18 to study at Brown University.

Sushma Joshi graduated from Brown University in the US in 1996 with a BA in international relations.

Sushma Joshi took workshops in fiction, autobiography and poetry, and classes in documentary production with the artist Tony Cokes.