Sumita Chakraborty

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet and a scholar. Her debut poetry collection, Arrow, was published by Carcanet in 2020 (and by Alice James Books in the U.S.). Her poetry has appeared in the Forward Book of Poetry, PN Revie, Stand, The American Poetry Review, the Best American Poetry series, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Nation, The Rumpus, The Offing, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Her scholarship has appeared in Cultural Critique, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Modernism/modernity, College Literature, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and elsewhere, and she has published public-facing literary criticism and personal essays in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Rain Taxi, among others. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Kundiman fellow, and has been shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.