Digital
AvailableLanguage | English |
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ISBN-10 | 9789354904509 |
ISBN-13 | 9789354904509 |
No of pages | 252 |
Book Publisher | Ukiyoto Publishing |
Published Date | 05 Apr 2022 |
Somjeeta Pandey is a Poet, Assistant Professor of English at a government-aided college in West Bengal and a part-time Research Scholar in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research is rooted in detective fiction, feminist literary studies, Dalit studies and ecocritical studies.
Her poems have appeared in The CQ: A Literary Magazine, Global Poemic, Madness Muse Press, Litterateur, The Bombay Review, Eskimo Pie, Faces to the Sun: A Mental Health Awareness Anthology, Point Positive Publishing’s Rebloom Anthology, Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s The Kali Project and Through the Looking Glass.
One of her poems ‘Broken’ has been featured in the YouTube channel of Poets’ Choice zine and Poetsunplugged. She is also a mother to countless stray dogs. She can be reached at [email protected].
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