Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan, where she teaches literary studies and creative writing. In 2017, she received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and in 2018, her poem 'And death demands a labor' was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem by the Forward Arts Foundation. Formerly, she was poetry editor of
AGNI Magazine and art editor of
At Length.
In Sumita Chakraborty's 'I Almost Gave Up on Life,' each chapter unfolds like a suspenseful ebook where despair meets determination. Just when you think the protagonist — aka life — has hit rock bottom, Chakraborty flips the script with resilience and wit. Her story teaches us that...
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