Sumita Chakraborty

Sumita Chakraborty
OccupationPoet, academic
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
Notable worksArrow
Notable awardsRuth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship (2017)
GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry (2022)

Sumita Chakraborty is an Indian American poet and academic.[1] She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books, 2020), which won the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry in 2022. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.[2][3][4]

Education and career

Chakraborty earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in English from Emory University.[5] Before joining the University of Virginia, she taught at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting professor in Poetry, and at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor of English.[5]

In 2017, she received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.[6] She has also served as poetry editor of AGNI (magazine) and art editor of At Length.[6]

In a 2021 interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chakraborty said she was working on her first scholarly book, then titled Grave Dangers: Death, Ethics, and Poetics in the Anthropocene.[7]

Arrow

Chakraborty's debut poetry collection, Arrow, was published in 2020 by Alice James Books in the United States and Carcanet Press in the United Kingdom.[8][9][10]

Reception

In a 2020 review for NCPR, Jeevika Verma wrote that Arrow "creates magic out of what hurts us most" and identified the long poem "Dear, Beloved" as central to the collection.[11] Reviewing the collection in The Journal, Maya McOmie wrote that it centers on the death of the poet's sister.[12] Writing for The New York Times, Elisa Gabbert called Arrow an "allusive and witty debut" and wrote that Chakraborty's poems are "full of life and joy" even as they "defy easy notions of aboutness".[13]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ "Meet Sumita Chakraborty, Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry". U-M's India Impact Podcast. November 3, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  2. ^ "About Sumita Chakraborty". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  3. ^ "Beall Poetry Festival Brings Contemporary Poets to Three-Day Event". Baylor University News. March 28, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  4. ^ "Sumita Chakraborty". University of Virginia Department of English. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  5. ^ a b "Sumita Chakraborty". University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  6. ^ a b c Williams, Kimber (September 6, 2017). "Emory PhD candidate Sumita Chakraborty wins prestigious award for young poets". Emory News Center. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  7. ^ Farmer, Jonathan (April 9, 2021). "Live Wires: A Conversation with Sumita Chakraborty". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  8. ^ "Sumita Chakraborty". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  9. ^ "Arrow". Carcanet Press. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  10. ^ a b "2020 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Poetry (General)". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  11. ^ Verma, Jeevika (September 12, 2020). "'Arrow' Creates Beauty From What Hurts Us Most". NPR via North Country Public Radio. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  12. ^ McOmie, Maya (July 26, 2022). "Review of Sumita Chakraborty's Arrow". The Journal. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  13. ^ Gabbert, Elisa (October 2, 2020). "Sometimes, the Funny Thing About Poetry Is the Poems". The New York Times. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  14. ^ "Previous Years". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  15. ^ "2021 Winner". Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  16. ^ "GLCA Announces 2022 Winners of the New Writers Award". Great Lakes Colleges Association. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
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