Samhita Mukhopadhyay is a poet, writer and translator from Kolkata, India. She has been living in the United States since her early twenties, and has been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California at San Diego, a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia Extension Program, an artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, and a writer-in-residence at the University of California Santa Barbara. In addition to writing poetry, she has published several collections of short stories as well as essays on literature and art. Her work as a translator includes books on Bengali literature and poetry by contemporary writers from Bengal
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Samhita Mukhopadhyay teaches creative writing for fiction through UVA's MFA program. She is currently on the faculty of CUNY's Queens College and edits a literary journal called Spring Journal.