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Sumita Chakraborty

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet and a scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books/Carcanet Press, 2020) her current projects are a scholarly monograph titled Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene (under advance contract with University of Minnesota Press) and a second poetry collection, titled The B-Sides of the Golden Record. Chakraborty is assistant professor of English and creative writing at North Carolina State University.