Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of the essay collection Brown Women Have Everything. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. Her essays have been named as “Notable” by Best American Essays 2022 and 2023. Previous books include the short story collection Women Who Misbehave, the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood, and Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between, a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Creative Nonfiction. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the WILMA Woman of the Year award in Arts for 2022. Her writing has appeared in over 60 literary journals and magazines, including, The Rumpus, Scroll, Economic & Political Weekly, IIC Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, and others. She is a contributing editor for Assay: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction and the founder of Write Wilmington, an online writing initiative that’s free and open to writers all around the world. Her research interests include creative nonfiction, literary fiction, South Asian history and literature, Indian cinema, world religions, fairy tales, folklore and mythology. An Associate Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington, Sayantani has also taught writing in India, Italy, Colombia, and Mexico.