Sumita Chakraborty’s first collection of poetry, Arrow, is forthcoming with Alice James Books in the U.S. and Carcanet Press in the U.K. in September 2020. Her poetry, essays, and scholarship have appeared or will soon appear in Cultural Critique, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Modernism/modernity, POETRY, Best American Poetry 2019, the American Poetry Review, and other venues. She was a 2017 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and, in 2018, was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Formerly poetry editor of AGNI, art editor of At Length, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University (where she received her doctorate), she will begin the position of Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan in Fall 2019.