Bio
Amrita Chakraborty is a Bangladeshi American writer and editor. Her poetry, fiction, essays and articles have been published in outlets such as the Latin American Literary Review, Kajal Magazine, Split Lip Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue and others. She graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor's degree in English, and is currently a graduate student in comparative literature at Cornell University. Her research interests include theories of transnational and Women of Color feminisms, decolonial studies, and alternative futurities/utopian studies.
Amrita has experience in the creative, scholarly, and professional writing fields, and served as an Editorial Fellow with The Tempest in 2019. She was a winner of the 2018 Golden Shovel Poetry Prize as well as a finalist for the 2019-2020 Poetry Project Fellowship. Her microchapbook Cold Alchemy was released by Ghost City Press in August 2020.
She is open to commissions and pitches for essays, articles, creative work, and reading and speaking engagements. If you are interested, please feel free to reach out.