Nottingham Contemporary

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet and a scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books (U.S.)/Carcanet Press (U.K.), 2020), which received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, PN Review, Stand, and elsewhere. Her scholarship has appeared in Cultural Critique, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Modernism/modernity, College Literature, and elsewhere. She has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, been shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem by the Forward Arts Foundation, and will be a 2022 Kundiman Fellow. She is also at work on a scholarly book that is under advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press titled Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene. After three years at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry, she will join the faculty at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing in the fall.