Somrita Urni Ganguly is a professor, researcher, and translator, soon to complete her PhD from the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She teaches British Literature to undergraduate students and translates from Bengali and Hindi to English. She was selected by the Writers’ Centre Norwich as an emerging translator in 2016. Her work has been showcased at the 2017 London Book Fair and she has been published in Asymptote, In Other Words, and Muse India, among others. She is currently translating a political biography, a young adults’ novel, and an anthology of erotic verses, to be published in December this year.*
She is less officious and more accessible on Facebook @urni.g or Twitter @blessed_damsel.*
(*unless lost in translation)