Poet filmmaker Jayan K Cherian born in India, writes in Malayalam under the name Jayan KC, currently lives in New York City. Graduated with honors from Hunter College, BA in Film and Creative Writing , and MFA from The City College of New York in Writing Directing and Cinematography. Participated in Abbas Kiarostami Master Class Seminar at Hunter College, March 2007, Made several experimental documentaries and narrative films, such as: Shape of the Shapeless (2010) Love in the Time of Foreclosure (2009) Hidden Things (2009) Soul of Solomon (2008), Capturing the Signs of God (2008), Holy Mass (2007), Tree of Life (2007), Simulacra the Reality of the Unreal (2007), The Inner Silence of the Tumult (2007), Hid-entity (2007) and Tandava the Dance of Dissolution (2006).
Published four collections of poetry in Malayalam Ayodhanaththinte Achuthantu (Axis of Combat), (1996), Ayanam vachana rekhayil”(Journey on the line of verse) (1999) , Polymorphism (2002), and Pachakku (Like it is ) (2006).
Movies were screened, in Kenyan International Film Festival, Short Film Corner: Festival De Cannes 2008 , CUNY Asian American film festival, ViBGYOR International Film festival 2008, Millennium Film Workshop and ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES in New York City.
Received many Awards for Poetry such as, Kerala Sahitya Academy Kanakasri Endowment Award for “Ayanam Vachana rekhayil” 2002.Mathan Tharakan Award for “Ayodhanathinte Achuthantu”(axis of Combat) 1996, By Mathan Tharakan Trust, Pathanamthitta , Kerala, India, Malayalam Pathram Award 1996-97Chacko publications, New York, Federation of Kerala Associations in North America seventh international convention Award for poetry. Dallas, Texas July 4th 1996.FOKANA award for the poem 'Bhoomiyute Hrudayam'(The heart of Earth) in 1994Toronto, Canada. Attended poetry workshops with eminent American poets like William Pitt Root, Jan Heller Levy, Gail Wronsky and Rodger Kamanetz in various universities. Participated in Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Poetry Workshop at Charles University, Prague, with John Woods Scholarship in 2005.
