Sayantani Dasgupta

Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. Previous books include the short story collection Women Who Misbehave, the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood, and Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between, a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Creative Nonfiction. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the WILMA Woman of the Year in Arts for 2022. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington, and is the founder of Write Wilmington, a community writing workshop. Besides the US, Sayantani has also taught writing in India, Italy, Colombia, and Mexico.