Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with six books and four anthologies in fiction and poetry. She lives in Dallas, Texas with her family where she also teaches Creative Writing at Dallas College and also at Texas Christian University. She 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 International Reuel Prize for her English translation of Tagore’s selected works of fiction (2016). Her poetry collection ‘Let The Night Sing’ and her debut fiction work ‘All That Jazz & Other Pathbreaking Tales’ received Honorary Mention at New England Book Festival 2018 and 2020. She has also been a featured author at Rice University, Houston and co-produced the poetry film 'Kolkata Cocktail' directed by Shuvayu Bhattacharjee.