Sayantani Dasgupta  (author of Fire Girl, Two Sylvias Press, 2016)
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Sayantani Dasgupta was born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi. She currently teaches at the University of Idaho. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Rumpus, Phoebe, and Gulf Stream, among other magazines and literary journals. She edits nonfiction for Crab Creek Review, and previous honors include a Puschart Prize Special Mention and a Centrum Fellowship. In Fire Girl, her debut collection of essays, Sayantani examines her personal story against the history, religion, popular culture and mythology of South Asia and her current home in the American West.

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To learn more about Sayantani, please visit: www.sdasgupta.com


 

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