Spring 2023 seminar: M.F.A. candidate, creative writing
Arpita Chakrabarty is a writer from Calcutta. She is interested in novels, short fiction, poetry, and essays. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist for ten years for different publications including Al Jazeera. As a 2017 journalism fellow for People's Archive of Rural India, she documented trans Himalayan migration. Chakrabarty holds trainings and talks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and technology for women and gender-nonconforming people. She holds an M.A. from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, and a B.A. from Calcutta University.