Hosang Merchant
(1947 - living) India
Writer and poet
Born in Bombay, India. His parents were Zoroastrian business people. On his mother's side he descends from a line of preachers and teachers.
In 1968 he graduated with a BA, majoring in English and minoring in the culture of India. He obtained a Master's from Occidental College, Los Angeles.
 Hosang specialised in the Renaissance and Modernism at Purdue University. In 1981 he was awarded a PhD by Purdue for his book on Anais Nin, In-discretions. He and Anais Nin corresponded for four years. He was one of the founders of Gay Liberation at Purdue University.
In 1975 he left Purdue and attended the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Centre in Massachusetts. He has also lived and taught in Heidelberg, Iran, and Jerusalem. He studied Buddhism at the Tibetan Library at Dharamsala, north India. He also studied Islam in Iran and Palestine. Since 1989 he has published eight books of poetry. He then went to Hyderabad University to teach Poetry and Surrealism.
His work include:
- In-discretions (1981, book on Anais Nin)
- Flower to Flame (1992, poems)
- Yaranna: Gay Writing from India (1999)
Website: http://www.geocities.com/hoshang_m/
Excerpts from: The Knitting Circle, U.K. - http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/people.html
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