Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with eight books and five anthologies in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has received the Journey Awards (First Place category winner) for her memoir ‘Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant’s Wayward Journey,’ the International Reuel Prize for Poetry (2017) and other honors. Her poetry has been published in renowned platforms including ‘Life in Quarantine’, the Digital Humanities Archive of Stanford University. She has been a Featured Poet at Rice University, Houston in November 2019. ‘Bakul Katha: Tale of the Emancipated Woman’, her English translation of Ashapurna Devi’s award-winning Bengali novel has received Honorable Mention at London Book Festival. Her other notable publications are her poetry collection ‘We Are What We Are: Primal Songs of Ethnicity, Gender & Identity’ (2022), a collaboration with Mexican-American poet Priscilla Rice and ‘The Bard and His Sister-in-Law’, her English translation of feminist poet and scholar Mallika Sengupta’s historical novel ‘Kabir Bouthan’.