Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books (U.S.)/Carcanet Press (U.K.), 2020), which received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. Her first scholarly book, Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene, is under an advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Her poetry has appeared in Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, the Best American Poetry series, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, The Offing, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She has written public criticism for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Cultural Critique, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, College Literature, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and honors from the Poetry Foundation, Kundiman, and the Forward Arts Foundation, among others. For more information, see sumitachakraborty.com.