Dr. Somrita Ganguly is a professor, award-winning writer and TEDx speaker. She was a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellow at Brown University, and has served as a judge for the PEN America Translation Prize and the Kamala Das Poetry Awards. She is an Expert Reader for the English PEN Translation Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant offered by the U.S. federal government and the National Translation Award (US). Nights at the Calcutta Café, the latest anthology of poems she co-edited with Prof. Peter Schulman of Old Dominion University, was published by Finishing Line Press, Kentucky.
In true feminist fashion, Somrita Urni Ganguly takes the story of Cinderella and shifts the gaze from the canonical curfew-breaking protagonist to her ‘evil’ step-sister. As a result, a fairy tale about true love and fate becomes one about solidarity and liberation.
