![]() ![]() Sumita’s time at AGNI provided her this comforting(?) insight: no matter how talented and brilliant you are, your poems might still be rejected because of reasons beyond your control. It was in these positions that became accustomed to every angle of poetry publication before venturing in as poet herself. In her 13 years at AGNI Magazine, she worked in many capacities, eventually serving as poetry editor. We were surprised to hear that Sumita’s introduction to creative writing and literary studies was in college. But I’ll say that poet Rishi Dastidar did what I couldnt do when she wrote that it’s “a book to hold close, an amulet that transmutes the intensities of grief into something uplifting, the attempt to keep hold of wonder.” We are thrilled to get to talk to her today about this luminous debut collection and many other things, if we’re lucky. Virtual Conference | MaEpisode 172: #AWP21 Day 4, Episode 1Ĭorraling the myriad ways Sumita Chakraborty’s poetry collection gets at the heart of grief all but flummoxed me. Check out the full episode as we discuss this, and many other traits of scientists-turned-writers, as well as the organization she founded with author, Jessica White, called Science Write Now, a publishing platform and community-based forum for creative writing about science. ![]() But as both she and Jess agree, you just have to trick yourself by writing it piece by piece. What began as an award-winning short story eventually evolved into a novel-which was completely outside Amanda’s comfort zone. That’s when she started writing The Breeding Season. She was studying a unique marsupial species where the male invests so much into their reproduction that they only survive one breeding season. But fiction connects with readers, enabling them to empathise with imagined lives. As part of her author profile (bestill our science-loving hearts) she writes: “Does science belong in literary fiction? As a scientist, I never thought so. ![]() She is the author of numerous award-winning short stories, essays, and an acclaimed novel, The Breeding Season (Allen & Unwin, 2019). Virtual Conference | MaEpisode 172: #AWP21 Day 4, Episode 2Īmanda Niehaus has a PhD in Physiological Ecology. ![]()
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