Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with seven books and five anthologies in fiction and poetry. She lives in Texas, USA where she also teaches Creative Writing at Texas Christian University. She has been a recipient of 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 Nobel Laureate Tagore's selected works of fiction (2016). Lopamudra has published two critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, 'Let the Night Sing' and 'Woman and Her Muse', and her poetry has also been published in renowned platforms including 'Life in Quarantine', the Digital Humanities Archive of Stanford University. She has been a Featured Poet at Rice University, Houston in November 2019. Her recent publication 'Bakul Katha: Tale of the Emancipated Woman', her English translation of Ashapurna Devi's award-winning Bengali novel 'Bakul Katha' has received Honorable Mention at London Book Festival.
