Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an Indian writer, poet, editor and translator, currently based in Dallas, Texas, USA. She has a Master’s degree with a thesis in Creative Nonfiction Writing from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and also a Masters’ in English from the University of Calcutta.

She is the author of five books, including ‘Thwarted Escape’ (Honorable mention, Los Angeles Book Festival 2017, First Place Category Winner, Journey Awards 2015), two poetry collections 'Let The Night Sing (Global Fraternity of Poets, 2017) and the very recently published 'Woman and Her Muse' (Authorspress, 2018) and two books of English translation of the creations of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, 'The Broken Home and Other Stories' and 'Tales of Transformation: English translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika'. She has also co-edited three anthologies, including ‘Defiant Dreams’, selected as a book worth reading by Oprah Book Club 2.0. A fire-brand poet, a short fiction writer with a poetic voice, and a translator trans-creating Bengali literary classics into English, her work has been published in numerous online mags, print journals and anthologies in India, USA, UK and Australia, and she also extends her voice as a spoken word artist in various forums and poetry events both in India and in US. Recently she has been featured by Dark Moon Poetry, Texas on the occasion of the Women's History Month in March 2018. She is a recipient of the Reuel International Award 2016 for her translation of Tagore’s ‘Nastanirh’ (translated as The Broken Home), and also a recipient of Reuel International Award for Poetry 2017, both instituted by The Significant League. Being a mother of two young girls, she is also passionate about eradicating gender discrimination and child abuse. Recently, her story has been featured in The Red Elephant Foundation, a non-profit organization focusing on gender equality.