Sampurna Chattarji

Sampurna Chattarji is a writer, translator and teacher as well as the poetry editor of The Indian Quarterly. Her 18 books include seven poetry titles, the most recent being Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien, Over and Under Ground in Mumbai and Paris, the result of a collaboration with poet Karthika Naïr; and The Bhyabachyaka and other Wild Poems, which she co-authored with Welsh author Eurig Salisbury. Her translation of Joy Goswami’s Selected Poems is a Harper Perennial and Wordygurdyboom!, her translation of Sukumar Ray, is a Puffin Classic. Her new translation of Joy Goswami’s prose poems is forthcoming later this year.