Sumita Chakraborty

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her debut collection of poetry is Arrow (Alice James Books and Carcanet Press, forthcoming September 2020). She earned a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD from Emory University, where she previously was also visiting assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her essays and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Cultural Critique, Modernism/modernity, College Literature, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, and elsewhere; her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry magazine, American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Best American Poetry 2019, and elsewhere. She received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2017, was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem by the Forward Arts Foundation in 2018, and became a Kundiman Fellow in 2020. She is working on a scholarly book project about poetics and ethics in the anthropocene. Chakraborty is Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she teaches in literary studies and in creative writing.